"My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo."

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This reflection on wisdom by Jane Campion resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in wisdom is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Jane Campion

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is one of the prominent female filmmakers in the history of cinema and women's, noted her works often with themes of feminism, sexuality, and tension between independence and submission. Her accolades include two Academy Awards and nominations of three Primetime Emmy Awards.

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"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."

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"Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose."

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