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Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. ↗

— William Wallace Campbell

#fight #live #may #run #you

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

#count #discuss #does #embarrassing #exist

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#compatible #find #great #i #into

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

#different #film-makers #films #freedom #gives

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

#daughter #enough #feeling #felt #going

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride? ↗

— Johann Hari

#barack-obama #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#funny #get #how #intimate #text

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

#arty #been #career #corrupting #doing

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

#being #birth #directors #gave #going

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

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go