Caro, Niki Filmography

• The Zookeeper's Wife
  2015, role: director
• McFarland
  2014, role: director
• Qantas Film and Television Awards 2009
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Vintner's Luck
  2009, role: producer
• The Vintner's Luck
  2009, role: director
• The Vintner's Luck
  2009, role: writer
• 42 One Dream Rush
  2009, role: director
• Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• North Country
  2005, role: director
• Behind the Scenes of 'Whale Rider'
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Making of 'Whale Rider'
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Whale Rider
  2002, role: director
• Whale Rider
  2002, role: writer
• Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave
  2001, role: director
• Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave
  2001, role: writer
• Mercy Peak
  2001, role: director
• Memory & Desire
  1998, role: writer
• Memory & Desire
  1998, role: director
• Sure to Rise
  1994, role: writer
• Sure to Rise
  1994, role: director

Famous quotes by Niki Caro:

"[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."

"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."

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

"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.'"

"[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."

"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."

"There is usually so much stuff all over the floor that it's like the actors are in a cage. How could you act that way? We were able to have the camera follow the actors, so they could move and breathe."

"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,"

"[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."

"North Country"

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Heartbeat - Nick Berry
• Every Loser Wins - Nick Berry
• Daydream Believer - Nick Berry

Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me
Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine
Heartbeat, why do you flip then give me a skippy smile
wriggly pat and sing to me loves story
and bring to me love's glory

We nearly made it
We nearly found the perfect combination
The road was right, we must have read the signs wrong
And now it's all gone
But if we'd made it
Could we be sure that it was for the better
Who could say we would have stayed together
Nothing is certain, in a changing world
Every loser wins, once the dream begins
In time we'll see, fate holds the key
And every loser knows, the light eternal shows
Will shine on you, and all those who knew
We nearly made it
Suddenly we seemed to stop and lose our way
But did it really matter anyway
For that was yesterday
And we must live for now
Coz every loser wins, once the dream begins
In time we'll see, fate holds the key
And every loser knows, the light eternal shows
Will shine on you, and all those who knew
We nearly made it
Stand up and count me
I know you're on my side
Shine down on me
And those who believe

Oh, I could hide neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings.
The six oclock alarm would never ring.
Whoops its ringing and I rise,
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes.
My shavin razors cold and it stings.
Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
You once thought of me
As a white knight on a steed.
Now you know how happy I can be.
Oh, and our good times starts and end
Without dollar one to spend.
But how much, baby, do we really need.
Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
[instrumental interlude]
Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer