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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
Dame Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion
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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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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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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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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
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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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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.
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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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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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Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
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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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In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.
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This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
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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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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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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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