65 Quotes by Niki Caro

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

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

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.

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,

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.