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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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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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With Bright Star and with The Piano, too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways Id get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if its contemporary, creates its own world. – Jane Campion

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Experience
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I think women dont grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. – Jane Campion

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Nowadays peoples visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. – Robert Doisneau

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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. – Daniel Bell

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I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? Whats a soul? Whats it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? – Jane Campion

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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