Jane Campion

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all. ↗

— Jane Campion

#encapsulate #everyone #explain #films #get

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. ↗

— Jane Campion

#characters #form #i #i love #long

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

#environment #fail #frightened #home #humiliation

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona. ↗

— Jane Campion

#front #many #open #persona

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. ↗

— Jane Campion

#ended #ends #everything #piano #television

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

#grass #ideas #like #moon #observe

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. ↗

— Jane Campion

#directors #feminine #happening #i #states

Tragedy makes you grow up. ↗

— Jane Campion

#grow up #makes #tragedy #up #you

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. ↗

— Jane Campion

#evil #get #good #i #i have learned

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

#andrew #because #biography #fresh #how