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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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Jane Campion
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 30
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Wellington
New Zealand
Elizabeth Jane Campion
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There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.
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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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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 think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
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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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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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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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That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.
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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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It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives
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Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.
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I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.
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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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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
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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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In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.
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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'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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I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.
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Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.
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