Its 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
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 Id get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if its contemporary, creates its own world. – Jane Campion
I think women dont 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. – Jane Campion
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. – Jane Campion