The Grass is Greener - Jane Campion

What Kerry Fox brings to the Janet Frame character is an immense honesty and freshness, which to me is Janet anyway. Her commitment was extraordinary and it was very much something that drove me on. I had to match her, and likewise she had to match me.

– Jane Campion on Kerry Fox, the star of An Angel at My Table

I don't have the agony that a lot of people have, but then I think I've developed what you'd call a working relationship with my subconscious...

– Jane Campion on scriptwriting

I always thought she was pretty funny ... she works intuitively; she just kind of takes layers away from something that she feels is there, until it comes out.

– Gerard Lee, Jane Campion's scriptwriting partner on films Passionless Moments and Sweetie

I don't mind people not liking the movie, I think that's really understandable. But people that think it's disgusting, I think are just totally pathetic...totally unadjusted to life or what's really there, or totally committed to not seeing the truth.

– Jane Campion on her debut feature film, Sweetie (1989)

...I find truth's always inspiring. I don't find even the darkest tale told bleak, if it's true. What i find repulsive is rubbish: dishonest sort of crap put together to be called entertainment. I find that very very depressing.

– Jane Campion

...they never quite understood what we were on about, and I think they just kept all the way along the line thinking it was some sort of little experiment that we were doing. But they never really thought it was a proper film.

– Cinematographer Sally Bongers on reaction from teachers at the Australian Film, TV and Radio School to Peel, which was later named Best Short Film at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival