Niki Caro Quotes on Movies (11 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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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