Jane Campion Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PeopleGoWayNutsUpPiano

If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for.

Melissa Peterman

TimeBackPlayGoTellHigh

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Robert Lansing

OldPorchNeighborhoodGuyKidsHis

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

Robert H. Schuller

ThinkBodyKindEmotionalSystem

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Steve Erickson

PointPromiseLikePerilTipping

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Marvin Olasky

Be StrongStrongLookPersonMeans

I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.

Jason Fuchs

RomanticFavoriteGenreBiased

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

Dick Cavett

CoffeeMoneyMountainPizzaComedy

Read everything. Ask your own questions. Be your own filter. Nobody is going to look at the world around you and tell you what important things are happening that affect you and the ones you love.

Chelsea Manning

LoveWorldQuestionsYouLookAsk

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

Annette Bening

StoryYouFindWantWriteTell

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Alison Moyet

ManMeControlVoiceFeelRight

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

GoodBeautyCultureYouFindLooks

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

Grover Norquist

GovernmentGrowLongFocusedEconomy

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jane Campion