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Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
Jane Campion
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Jane Campion
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 30
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Wellington
New Zealand
Elizabeth Jane Campion
Dame Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion
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I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
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It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.
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I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
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When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
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I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.
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I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.
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There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
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So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.
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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, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
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The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
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My musical knowledge is so bad it's 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.
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You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
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