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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through. "

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

" One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.' "

" You have to write what you know. "

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

" 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'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space. "

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

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

" Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend. "

" A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other. "

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

" My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like, 'Say this, say this! Say it this way!' I'll straight-up give Anthony Hopkins a line reading. I don't care. "

" I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point. "

" I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time. "

" As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori. "

" 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. "

" New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding. "

" I play music all the time because silence freaks me out. "

" The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic. "