Niki Caro
Niki Caro
Nikola Jean "Niki" Caro MNZMis a film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals...
drive finally hard huge men nice picture sent truck
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.'
blonde classic dazzling star
She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her.
bleak herself knew restaurant time turned
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.
emotional physical work
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.
films work
If the films about anything, ... its about the right to work with some kind of dignity.
collapse dramatic frame time
The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.