Quote by Jane Campion
I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black c

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

Other quotes by Jane Campion

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. Whats appealing is that you dont have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. – Jane Campion

Category:
Freedom
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote

My musical knowledge is so bad its embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. – Jane Campion

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. – Auguste Rodin

Category:
Art

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. – Tony Blair

Category:
Art

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know youre an artist. – David Hockney

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Happiness

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. – Ellen G. White

Category:
alone

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. – Babe Ruth

Category:
Home

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Ideas