Niki Caro Quotes (20 Quotes)

There is usually so much stuff all over the floor that it's like the actors are in a cage. How could you act that way We were able to have the camera follow the actors, so they could move and breathe.

When I put up Springsteen songs against our pictures, I couldn't make any of them work, ... Springsteen writes almost exclusively about the young male experience in working-class America. But you put anything by Dylan against this film and it works.

The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.

It's a very cold, bleak environment, ... I was late, but she turned up at the restaurant alone, installed herself at the bar. By the time I got there, there were shrieking all with laughter, as if they knew each other for a long time.

She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her.

Frances was a hard one. Oh, man, ... But finally I sent her a picture of the huge 240-ton truck she was going to get to drive in the movie, and she e-mailed me back, 'I give up Men may come and go, but that is a really nice truck.'

A number of the women who served as consultants on the film appear in a climactic courtroom scene. It was really amazing to have them there, ... It gave the scene a real potency to shoot.

I didn't want to make anything that wasn't compassionate and didn't allow them their dignity and I hope they're really proud of the film and more than that, I hope they're really proud of their women.

That's the kind of insight Caro goes for. The people on the Range are so down-to-earth and strong, and they don't take s---, ... I loved hanging around in bars with the real women. They advised us on every detail - make-up, props, dialogue, manners. And I was so glad that, at the end of the film, we could have some of the real women stand up in the courtroom scenes.

I hope you can see that I love Minnesota, ... You know, all the women from the mines talked to me about the beauty of the land. The idea that it has always been there, this mystical place that is scary and seductive and that, for many years, they never saw the inside of. So I tried to show that this land is very beautiful and that, even though a lot of ugly things happened, so did a lot of beautiful things.

Girl From the North Country.

When Caro met Dylan, there was still no title for the film. I wanted to call the film 'Landmark' for a long time, ... But the studio didn't think it was a sexy title, so I didn't get my way.

We talked to the women about what it was like, the first time they went into the mine, because all of them have grown up with those buildings on the landscape and those smokestacks and the men in their families going off to the mine, and it was always a mythical place,

If the films about anything, ... its about the right to work with some kind of dignity.

If people walk out feeling emotional about the movie, that would be enough for me, ... But for people who have experienced (abuse), in an ideal world, it would give them courage to stand up.

I make it my business to have felt everything the characters need to feel, so if the actors need me to help them go where they need to go, I have already been there,

The book was about a 22-year legal battle, and let me tell you, that makes for a well-researched but very convoluted story,

There was something really nice about the fact that he is from Hibbing, on the Iron Range, ... But the big thing was that the way this man speaks about the human condition is so incredible. And I think that he really, profoundly loves women, so his music is a big influence on the movie.

You've got to be pretty to get their attention, but then that becomes your prison, as well,

It was not interesting to me to make the movie if I couldn't make it in that landscape,