More - Niki Caro Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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.

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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.

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North Country

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 Country

[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.

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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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 Business

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.

Niki Caro