"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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When Jane Campion speaks about architecture, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of architecture in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

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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"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."

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"I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water."

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