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" As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori. "
Taika Waititi
Marley
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" Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax. "
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" Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art. "
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" There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum. "
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" I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template. "
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" I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long time. "
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" I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies. "
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" My favorite was 'The Lost Boys.' Corey Haim wore this trench coat, and I made my mum buy me a trench coat. I wore it to school, to primary school. "
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" Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters. "
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" I come from a big extended family, so it's very normal to be around babies for us, but when it's your own, it's a very different experience for us. "
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" I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults. "
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" Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them. "
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" There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with. "
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" You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills. "
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" I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space. "
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" Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate. "
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" I really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well. "
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" I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor. "
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" Films that are easy to sell happen to be the worst films. Look at the poster for 'Wrath of the Titans' and 'John Carter': they're exactly the same. You could switch titles. "
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" Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that. "
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" I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up. "
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" In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you. "
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" You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through. "
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" I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work. "
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" If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance between comedy and drama. And they deal mainly with the clumsiness of humanity. "
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" I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls. "
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" To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money... Unless, that is, it's a film about an historical event. "
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" Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well. "
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" I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them. "
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" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "
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