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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. Its those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. – Jane Campion

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I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. – Jane Campion

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I didnt like England. I couldnt take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms werent understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. – Jane Campion

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And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, its just been so worth the effort. Its like Im planting a garden in my head. – Jane Campion

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. – John Desmond Bernal

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The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. – Bruno Rossi

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I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of whats going on. – Dave Attell

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Its a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so Ive never had any trouble identifying with the character that Im playing. – Jack Nicholson

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