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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.
Jane Campion
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Jane Campion
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 30
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Wellington
New Zealand
Elizabeth Jane Campion
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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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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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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
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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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So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.
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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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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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One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.
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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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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
Jane Campion
In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.
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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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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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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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Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
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I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.
Jane Campion
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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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.
Jane Campion
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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