With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

London: Pocket Essentials 2000. W. Having left the Australian Film and Television School Jane Campion directed an episode for ABC's light entertainment series Dancing Daze (1986) which led to her first TV film Two Friends (1986) produced by Jan Chapman.

Jane Campion (born Elizabeth Jane Campion; 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter producer and director based in Australia.