Jane Campion
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who... JANE CAMPION I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing... JANE CAMPION There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after a... JANE CAMPION If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tou... JANE CAMPION When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story ... JANE CAMPION I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, bu... JANE CAMPION I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave bi... JANE CAMPION I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I n... JANE CAMPION It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love S... JANE CAMPION Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives... JANE CAMPION I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more... JANE CAMPION If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concep... JANE CAMPION Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was rea... JANE CAMPION I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work... JANE CAMPION This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money min... JANE CAMPION I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's... JANE CAMPION I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organi... JANE CAMPION I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here... JANE CAMPION There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews n... JANE CAMPION My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as p... JANE CAMPION I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how every... JANE CAMPION A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story... JANE CAMPION Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really... JANE CAMPION Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built ar... JANE CAMPION What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not let... JANE CAMPION Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. JANE CAMPION To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. JANE CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAMPION If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure. EDMUND CAMPION His original thought was to walk off. But the medical folks pointed out, if he walked, that could co... ED CAMPION It's not a sense of urgency. ED CAMPION The thinking is that something is binding them -- a stiff cable or maybe a piece of insulation -- an... ED CAMPION You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g... JANE KRAKOWSKI JANE FONDA JANE AUSTEN JANE PAULEY JANE AUSTEN JANE SEYMOUR JANE ADDAMS JANE JACOBS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE ELLIOT JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ... JANE LYNCH JANE PAULEY I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t... JANE GREEN JANE FONDA Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off! JANE BIRKIN JANE SMILEY JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE MCGONIGAL JANE AUSTEN JANE FONDA JANE ELLIOT JANE AUSTEN JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just... JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her... JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou... JANE LINDSKOLD JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them... JANE BIRKIN JANE SMILEY JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and... JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I... JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple... JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea... JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a... JANE MAYER JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ... JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any... JANE GOODSELL JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve... JANE BADLER JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD THOMAS JANE JANE FONDA JANE HARRISON JANE PORTER JANE SEYMOUR JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ... CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th... CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ... CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t... CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous... CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got... CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s... CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo... CALAMITY JANE JANE LEVY JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor... JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha... JANE ASHER JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE JACOBS JANE AUSTEN JANE GOODALL JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE JOHNSON JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE SMILEY JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE HARRISON JANE MANSFIELD JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE FONDA JANE WAGNER JANE ROBERTS JANE FONDA JANE JACOBS JANE FONDA JANE HARRISON JANE FONDA JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe... JANE GOODSELL JANE ROBERTS JANE HOWARD JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE ADDAMS JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... 
I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think ... 
I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... 
A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrille... 
It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden... 
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for... 
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We ne... 
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... 
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... 
You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government... 
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be i... 
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. 
It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, bu... 
Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't re... 
I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy. 
I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature... 
I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... 
I don't have a 'Life's short, play hard' type of philosophy. That's about fear. ... 
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... 
I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to b... 
Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down a... 
I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for... 
I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. &... 
I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is abo... 
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... 
I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel,... 
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ... 
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You ... 
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don'... 
I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. ... 
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that ar... 
I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection. 
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... 
As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca... 
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me... 
Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or ro... 
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... 
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly co... 
I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to ... 
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're... 
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th... 
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the... 
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Al... 
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... 
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poe... 
I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month. 
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frighten... 
I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely ... 
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a ... 
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you... 
I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibil... 
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo... 
Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap... 
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. 
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that ... 
Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweet... 
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... 
Every savage can dance. 
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#... 
At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. 
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome... 
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. 
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... 
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. 
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'... 
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... 
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying... 
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ... 
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re... 
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ... 
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... 
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line... 
I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that. 
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a... 
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori... 
A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. 
Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... 
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. 
Men are creatures with eight hands. 
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. 
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... 
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ... 
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. 
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the... 
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ... 
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel... 