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