3 December 2020 Jane Campion As for how criticism of Keats’ poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I’ll leave that for others to decide.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion But I think it’s quite clear in my work that my orientation isn’t political or doesn’t come out of modern politics.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What’s a soul? What’s it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion 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.
