Jane Campion
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I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ... BARRY ZITO REBECCA MCNUTT HANNIBAL BURESS LYNN JOHNSTON Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvemen... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.&#... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN DAVID O. RUSSELL SHANE BLACK I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would sh... ANGELA SHELTON ALBERT BROOKS I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't ... LENNY ABRAHAMSON KIRSTEN DUNST My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the ... ALICIA COPPOLA BILL PAXTON ANDY ROONEY 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g... NANCY TRAVIS NICK PARK JIM HARRISON LYNN JOHNSTON SIGOURNEY WEAVER JOSH GAD I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. I... DULQUER SALMAAN JILLIAN HERVEY My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ... PATRICIA POLACCO DANIEL TOSH I was closing up my parents' house this summer, and found a film of my dad throwing a football with ... DAVID HYDE PIERCE I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudli... STEPHEN GRAHAM ORIANA FALLACI The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids r... TOM ELLIS Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act... JACOB BATALON KIM FIELDS I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produce... CHRIS WOOD I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interva... DAMIAN LEWIS JAMES CORDEN Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS PAUL WALKER VICTORIA AVEYARD NENEH CHERRY CAROL LEIFER I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over... JEFF BAENA This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don&#... ALICIA COPPOLA NAOMI CAMPBELL It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been ... PILOU ASBAEK SHRADDHA KAPOOR ZOE KRAVITZ RYAN HOLMES SURESH RAINA FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. LARRY WILMORE CHARLES FRAZIER I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif... EMILIANO SALINAS ANNALYNNE MCCORD I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let m... TREVOR MOORE GABOUREY SIDIBE I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favo... ANTHONY MACKIE TREVOR NOAH I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was s... JOE CARNAHAN TINA FEY How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I ... JOHN ELWAY JOHN GROGAN There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's... JAMES WOLK HANNIBAL BURESS Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi... J. R. SMITH I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond... PATRICK STEWART I did my crime and I paid for it, but I would like to have some kind of life. Look at this. Would yo... GARY GILBERT DEYTH BANGER POOJA HEGDE ALVIN LEE THOMAS SANGSTER I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an... EMMA DUMONT When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail ... JANIS IAN TILDA SWINTON It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on i... ERIC LADIN I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at ... CARROT TOP BOB AINSWORTH MARTIN AMIS GABBY DOUGLAS JAY PHAROAH LEROY NEIMAN ATHOL FUGARD I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. ... 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
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My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework ev... 
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where every... 
I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and... 
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren&#... 
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis... 
Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted... 
My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Facto... 
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... 
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to... 
I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I ... 
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ... 
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a... 
My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.... 
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it bec... 
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and ... 
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... 
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older ch... 
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television co... 
Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom... 
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house... 
I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some... 
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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try ... 
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. 
There is a garden in her face,
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A heavenly paradise is that ... 
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Every savage can dance. 
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. 
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