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Jane Campion Biography

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for directing the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Arrested, Art, Children, Father, Inch, Watch

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.

Ideas, Moon, Observe, Played, Real, See

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

Admit, Poetry, Problem, Problems

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Grow, Growing Up, Grows, Tragedy

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.

Cult, Ethos, Fall, Growing Up, Money

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Boys, Difficult, Kind, Studio, Trust

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.

Daughter, Mother, Parent, Quit, Real, Spend

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

Ocean, Piano, Goal, Feels, Obvious, Alive

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Actual, Attraction, Violence

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

Film, Nuts, People, Piano, Spooky

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Big, Complex, Piano, Proper, Struggle, Writing

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Heart, Holy, Journey, People

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.

Different, Freedom, Giving, Like, Responsibility, Thinking

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

Film, Fundamentalism, Ideas, Order, Thinking, Thoughts

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.

Considered, Friendship, Lid, People, Personality, Style

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

Ended, Ends, Piano, Television

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.

Feminism, Feminist, Feminists, Purpose, Relate

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Different, Different Kinds, Kind, Woman

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

Character, Fun, Loves, Make, Play

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.

Deep, Journey, Mean, Poet, Posthumously, Thing

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