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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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If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.
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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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It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
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The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.
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I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
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