Jane Campion Quotes

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

The meaning of life is life.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Who does understand life?

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.