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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
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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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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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So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.
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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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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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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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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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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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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
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In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.
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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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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 feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
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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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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
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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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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
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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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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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What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
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