KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jane Campion Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jane Campion

Showing 1-10 of 55 Quotes by Jane Campion

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

~Jane Campion

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Director

Born: April 30th, 1954

Links

Find Jane Campion on Amazon

Related Authors

Woody Allen
Tim Burton
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
David Lynch
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino

Popular Authors

Marcus Aurelius Kurt Cobain Christopher Hitchens Bob Marley Steve Martin Norman Vincent Peale Leo Tolstoy Denis Waitley

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Car Happiness Life Motivational Music Sports Women