North Country |
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.' |
Girl From the North Country. |
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. |
I didn't want to make anything that wasn't compassionate and didn't allow them their dignity and I hope they're really proud of the film and more than that, I hope they're really proud of their women. |
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. |
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, |
If the film’s about anything, ... it’s about the right to work with some kind of dignity. |
It was not interesting to me to make the movie if I couldn't make it in that landscape, |
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. |
She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her. |
The book was about a 22-year legal battle, and let me tell you, that makes for a well-researched but very convoluted story, |
The iron range has it’s problems, like everywhere else, but the people are genuinely good, |
The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes. |
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. |