She is a movie star in a classic sense. She is more dazzling than any blonde before her.

Whale Rider

[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.

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.