Quotes by Jane Campion

Jane Campion

A message I’ve been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can’t do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Cinema

Stories

Television

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Attraction

Violence

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head.

Garden

Mean

Thinking

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

Criticism

My Own

Relate

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don’t know what to do with gaps in their lives. It’s a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you’ll be able to see in the dark after a while. You’ll adjust.

Dark

Doors

Space

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it’s quite pressurized. Then I went to England – I wanted to reinvent myself.

Acting

Littles

Television

But I think it’s quite clear in my work that my orientation isn’t political or doesn’t come out of modern politics.

Modern

Political

Thinking

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.

Giving

Responsibility

Thinking

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.

Eight

Reading

Years

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.

Directors

Mirrors

People

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Able

Acting

Actors

Anxiety

Art

Artist

Attraction

Believe

Biographies

Boys

Cameras

Careers

Character

Children

Cinema

Conservative

Criticism

Cutting

Dark

Daughter

Different

Different Kinds

Difficult

Directors

Doe

Doors

Doubt

Dream

Eight

Emotion

Ends

Ethos

Evil

Fall

Falling In Love

Father

Feminism

Feminist

Firsts

Fun

Garden

Giving

Goal

Good Movie

Growing Up

Grows

Heart

Home

Husband

I Can

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Jane Campion

Jane Campion

A message I’ve been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can’t do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head.

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

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don’t know what to do with gaps in their lives. It’s a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you’ll be able to see in the dark after a while. You’ll adjust.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it’s quite pressurized. Then I went to England – I wanted to reinvent myself.

But I think it’s quite clear in my work that my orientation isn’t political or doesn’t come out of modern politics.

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.

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.

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.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Jane Campion

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu