Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
From Jane Campion
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
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.
I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
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.
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
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