Niki Caro
Niki Caro
Nikola Jean "Niki" Caro MNZMis a film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals...
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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.
We went to Toronto, we didn't have distribution, we didn't have a publicist, we didn't have anything. But we had a film.
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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.
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Her physical transformation was really interesting and astounding, but it was her emotional transformation, what she was doing emotionally in that film. Her work was unbelievable.
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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.'
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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.
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She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her.
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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,
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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,
It was not interesting to me to make the movie if I couldn't make it in that landscape,
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The book was about a 22-year legal battle, and let me tell you, that makes for a well-researched but very convoluted story,
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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.
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The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.
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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.