Jane Campion

Became the second woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, with La leçon de piano (1993). The first being Lina Wertmüller for Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975). Campion would later become the first woman to be nominated for Best Director twice, with Le pouvoir du chien (2021).

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.