Jane Campion Quotes

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

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• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Work
  • Money
  • Feel

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Jump
  • Restraint
  • Cliff

• I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Body
  • Healthy

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Industry
  • Software

• It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • American
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Love
  • Hunting
  • Outside

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Friend

• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Live
  • House
  • Small

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Me
  • Humanity
  • Ugly

• In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Black

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • First

• When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'

  

  Katie Nolan
  • People
  • Green
  • Trouble

• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Leader
  • Horror
  • Distrust

• The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Fearless

• We're doing just the best we can given the parameters we've got to work in, ... We certainly hope we can get something done soon, but I don't know.

  

  Allen Boyd
  • Work
  • Done
  • Hope

• 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