Jane Campion

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

— 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…

— Jane Campion

I think I made good movies.

— Jane Campion

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

— Jane Campion

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried…

— Jane Campion

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one,…

— Jane Campion

Tragedy makes you grow up.

— Jane Campion

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite…

— Jane Campion

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep…

— Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go…

— 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…

— 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.

— Jane Campion

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole…

— 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,…

— Jane Campion

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but…

— Jane Campion

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a…

— Jane Campion

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the…

— Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because…

— Jane Campion

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats…

— Jane Campion

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

— Jane Campion

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

— Jane Campion

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…

— Jane Campion

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…

— Jane Campion

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

— 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…

— Jane Campion