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
powerful thinking interesting
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.
running cutting winter
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.
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.
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.
problem
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
thinking good-movie made
I think I made good movies.
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.
anxiety doubt tough
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
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.
evil trying too-much
What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
thinking order ideas
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.