Niki Caro Quotations

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

The iron range has its problems, like everywhere else, but the people are genuinely good,

The book was about a 22-year legal battle, and let me tell you, that makes for a well-researched but very convoluted story,

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.

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

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,