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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 think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes. "

" The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies. "

" You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad? "

" Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do it, and then it's hard to break them out of it. "

" With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction. "

" We've got a thing called the 'tall puppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.' "

" 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. "

" There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum. "

" I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode. "

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, the reality is we're all losers, and we're all uncoordinated. We're the worst of all of the animals on earth, and there's something quite endearing about that. "

" I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents. "

" 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. "

" You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills. "

" You have to write what you know. "

" I daydream all the time. "

" When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk. "

" I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting. "

" That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried. "

" Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax. "

" My job is to express myself. "

" A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career. "

" I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories. "

" When you're on set, you're like, 'Everyone's judging me because I'm the director, and everyone thinks I'm doing this because I just love myself and I want to do everything.' Part of it's true: I do want to do everything, and I do kind of love myself. "

" I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum. "

" Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well. "

" Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career. "

" 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. "

" Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am. "

" I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro Valley in Wellington: growing up around a lot of theatre and poets and writers and stuff. "