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" Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know. "

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" My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that. "

" I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my stories from outside this country, then that's an added bonus. "

" Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them. "

" 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. "

" We all have to remember that New Zealand is built on these kind of people who are rebels and renegades, people doing it their own way, fighting for freedom, and braving the elements. I think it's cool to celebrate that. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw. "

" My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth. "

" 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. "

" Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters. "

" I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults. "

" 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. "

" People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should. "

" In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you. "

" 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. "

" I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template. "

" It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge. "

" Kids are always very savvy. It doesn't take long for a kid to realize when an adult is a loser. "

" Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate. "

Indigenous People

" Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising. "

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" 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. "