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• As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

  Jane Campion

  Criticism, Relate, My Own

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

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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

  Thinking, Ideas, Phrases

  "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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• I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

  Jane Campion

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

  Jane Campion

  Growing Up, Men, Thinking

  "Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes?" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Struggle, Writing, Piano

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

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Feminist, Feminism, Purpose

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

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Art, School, Able

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

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Keys, Musical, Emotion

  "How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano". Interview with Anna Tims, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

  Jane Campion

  Cameras, Actors, Persona

  "A Few Questions for Jane Campion". Interview with Brooks Barnes, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I think I made good movies.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Good Movie, Made

  "Ten Questions for Bright Star's Jane Campion: 'I've Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Stories, Letters, Biographies

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• I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

  Jane Campion

  People, Personality, Style

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Way, Moments

  "Campion 'fascinated by Keats's chastity'" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. January 20, 2010.

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• I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

  Jane Campion

  Ocean, Piano, Goal

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Mean, Journey, Poet

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

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Dream, Thinking, Artist

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

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Growing Up, Fall, Ethos

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• I fell in love again (laughs).

  Jane Campion

  Laughing, Love Again

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Television, Conservative

  "Jane Campion Says Feature Films Can Be Conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2012.

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• I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

  Jane Campion

  Nuts, Piano, People

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• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

  Jane Campion

  Believe, Thinking, Treasure

  Jane Campion (1993). “The piano”, Miramax

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• Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

  Jane Campion

  Violence, Attraction

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Political, Modern

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

  Jane Campion

  Sex, People, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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