Jane Campion Quotes - Page 3

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• I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

  Jane Campion

  People, Imagine, I Can

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• I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

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  Problem

  "Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 18, 2009.

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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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  Anxiety, Doubt, Tough

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• Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

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  Romantic, Independence, Today

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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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  Character, Luxury, Long

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• The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

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  Piano, Television, Ends

  "Jane Campion says feature films can be conservative" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

  Jane Campion

  Art, Children, Father

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

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  Mean, Garden, Thinking

  "Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 18, 2009.

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• In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

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  Heart, Journey, People

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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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  Thinking, Order, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

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  Acting, Television, Littles

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

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  Reading, Eight, Years

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Real

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