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Quote by Jane Campion

“In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.”

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Jane Campion is a New Zealand screenwriter and director known for her distinctive female perspective and profound understanding of the art of film. Born on April 30, 1954, she has been active in the film industry since the 1980s. Campion gained international acclaim with her film 'The Piano,' which won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director, making her the first woman to receive this honor. more

“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”

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Author:Michael Haneke

“I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.”

Feels Persons Tendencies Melancholy Temperament Happy Person

Author:Michael Haneke

“Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.”