65 Quotes by Niki Caro

Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.

I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be how could it be cooler?

We don't tend to break into song when we go to war.

Whale Rider' was a very authentic and specific movie about the indigenous culture from where I come. Amazingly, by the fact it was so authentic and so specific, it became really powerfully universal.

I've had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.

I blew up the mine in 'North Country'. It was about a kilometer long. I was so nervous that I'd do it wrong that I closed my eyes when I did it and I missed the shot completely.

Here's the problem: women directors are not allowed to fail.

Sense of place is really big for me - as a filmmaker and as an audience member, it's huge.

It's interesting - the things you remember about Chariots of Fire is the slow running on the beach and the Vangelis music.