Tragedy makes you grow up.

- Jane Campion

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

- Jane Campion

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

- Jane Campion

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at…

- 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 can redeem them, in their fantasy …

- Jane Campion

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand…

- Jane Campion

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are…

- Jane Campion

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of t…

- 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 hard thing to do. Of course, tele…

- Jane Campion