Top 100 Campion's Quotes

#1. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1491
#2. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #17523
#3. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #18064
#4. How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ...

John Geddes

Campion's Quotes #25352
#5. Secret fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #45695
#6. The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #58335
#7. Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

Edmund Campion

Campion's Quotes #67191
#8. The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #69466
#9. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #73874
#10. it makes no sense to pursue a career that bores you comatose." "That's

Alexander Campion

Campion's Quotes #121702
#11. I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #121843
#12. To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #228955
#13. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine ... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #237337
#14. Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #252138
#15. 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, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #280858
#16. In 1580, when William was sixteen, Campion passed through Warwickshire on his way to the more safely Catholic north. He stayed with a distant relative of Shakespeare's, Sir William Catesby, whose son Robert would later be a ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot.

Bill Bryson

Campion's Quotes #308160
#17. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #331535
#18. I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #342746
#19. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #350047
#20. When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #357557
#21. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #391230
#22. The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

Edwin Campion Vaughan

Campion's Quotes #396616
#23. I fell in love again (laughs).

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #410742
#24. It's 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

Campion's Quotes #426700
#25. Fortune, honour, beauty, youth,
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasures, doting love,
Are but shadows flying.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #450229
#26. 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

Campion's Quotes #457225
#27. Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #469613
#28. Tragedy makes you grow up.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #479143
#29. I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #520787
#30. There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #525583
#31. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #566392
#32. Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #575464
#33. At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.

Edmund Campion

Campion's Quotes #576511
#34. All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #597853
#35. Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #629768
#36. A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #630821
#37. It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.

Sarah Gavron

Campion's Quotes #642249
#38. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #655422
#39. Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

David Biespiel

Campion's Quotes #693647
#40. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #714824
#41. 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

Campion's Quotes #765723
#42. This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found out until it is too late.' Campion

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #773803
#43. Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #780068
#44. I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #807028
#45. I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #820843
#46. In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #862141
#47. I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

Gia Coppola

Campion's Quotes #862666
#48. Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #867852
#49. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #873151
#50. It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #876021
#51. A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #905316
#52. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #907138
#53. 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 I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #928502
#54. I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #944371
#55. 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, television can be conservative too.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #959748
#56. Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1070551
#57. As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1083084
#58. I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1098632
#59. I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1148350
#60. Atlas Ultra Ergonomic Book Holder,

Gregory Campion

Campion's Quotes #1159386
#61. I think I made good movies.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1164905
#62. That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

Emma Campion

Campion's Quotes #1168114
#63. 'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1195202
#64. Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #1198688
#65. Lost is our freedom
When we submit to women so:
Why do we need 'em
When, in their best, they work our woe?

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1202348
#66. There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1217938
#67. I think women don't 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

Campion's Quotes #1218204
#68. From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1245560
#69. My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1263309
#70. Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

Edmund Campion

Campion's Quotes #1276391
#71. Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1305729
#72. Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1306143
#73. Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1324088
#74. Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1329987
#75. If all would lead their lives in love like me,
Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1352093
#76. It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film.

Sarah Gavron

Campion's Quotes #1387656
#77. Beauty is not beauty without love.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1388324
#78. 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 in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1423759
#79. When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1426729
#80. The Seven Ps': Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.

Phil Campion

Campion's Quotes #1447141
#81. Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1462835
#82. Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1470574
#83. '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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1485605
#84. For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

Allison Anders

Campion's Quotes #1497682
#85. If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1552214
#86. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1577567
#87. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1581163
#88. If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1632452
#89. There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1657380
#90. My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1663177
#91. Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

Edmund Campion

Campion's Quotes #1688417
#92. Up the well known creek

Margery Allingham

Campion's Quotes #1688810
#93. I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

Campion's Quotes #1689878
#94. Jane Campion is a tough director.

Kate Winslet

Campion's Quotes #1690570
#95. I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Edward Abbey

Campion's Quotes #1699406
#96. Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Thomas Campion

Campion's Quotes #1711259
#97. I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1712868
#98. Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1713964
#99. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Edmund Campion

Campion's Quotes #1718474
#100. 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.

Jane Campion

Campion's Quotes #1862351

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