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Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Jane Campion

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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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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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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'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 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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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
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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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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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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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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 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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