Jane Campion
Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZMis a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for directing the acclaimed film The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 April 1954
real moon ideas
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
stars sadness piano
With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
stories letters biographies
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.
believe thinking treasure
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.
violence attraction
Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
criticism relate my-own
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
character luxury long
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.
thinking political modern
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
people imagine i-can
I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.
anxiety doubt tough
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
thinking way moments
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
thinking good-movie made
I think I made good movies.
cameras actors persona
So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.
piano television ends
'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.