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. -Niki Caro

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Niki Caro quotes in our collection. Niki Caro is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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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.

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[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. -Niki Caro
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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.' .

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[When Caro met Dylan, there was still no title for the film.] I wanted to call the film 'Landmark' for a long time, ... But the studio didn't think it was a sexy title, so I didn't get my way.

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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. -Niki Caro
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[If people walk out feeling emotional about the movie,] that would be enough for me, ... But for people who have experienced (abuse), in an ideal world, it would give them courage to stand up.

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