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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.
- Jane Campion
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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
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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
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#Music
#Myself
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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
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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.
- Jane Campion
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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
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#Myself
#Personality
#Style
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
- Jane Campion
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#My Own
#Others
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#Poetry
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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
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#Story
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
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#Mentality
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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
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#Control
#Feel
#I Am
#Imagination
I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.
- Jane Campion
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#Have Fun
#I Can
#Play
#Someone
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
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#Grow
#Men
#Women
#World
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
- Jane Campion
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#Will
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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
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#Grow
#Money
#Yourself
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
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#Portrait
#Responsibility
#Short
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.
- Jane Campion
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For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
- Jane Campion
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#Me
#Mirror
#People
#Watching
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
- Jane Campion
#Partner
#Sad
#Thinking
#Way
#Women
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
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#Journey
#Love
#Me
#Romantic
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
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#Great
#Path
#Romantic
#Time
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.
- Jane Campion
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#Romantic
#Today
#Up
#Women
Tragedy makes you grow up.
- Jane Campion
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#Grow Up
#Grow
#Tragedy
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