Jane Campion Quotes

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

I happen to be really a romantic.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

I'm definitely a romantic, no doubt about it.

I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

I always had this thirst for excitement.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.