Niki Caro Quotes

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Niki Caro

Profession : Director

Birth : September 20, 1966

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

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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.

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

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

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

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God knows nobody hated running more than me. Because I was writing and rewriting the script, I thought that I'm going to have to run because I'm going to have to know what it feels like to run.

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The amazing thing about cross-country is that they don't run indoors - I could put them in extraordinary environments. And it's kind of uniquely cinematic in that way, to be able to commit to the screen some things that people don't get to see too often.

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