Famous Quotes

"I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself."

Jane Campion on Friendship

More quotes about Friendship

• "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

  Elbert Hubbard on Friendship

• "Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

  Albert Camus on Friendship

• "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

  Buddha on Friendship

• "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

  Muhammad Ali on Friendship

• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

  Oprah Winfrey on Friendship

More quotes by Jane Campion

• "It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all."

• "There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean."

• "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it."

• "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it."

• "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 treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive."