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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" New Zealand was such a weird place in the 1980s. For instance, we used to have this commercial in the late 1970s where this guy drives this car and stops outside a corner store. He goes in to buy something, and when he comes out, his car is gone. He's like, 'Huh?' Then a voice says, 'Don't leave your keys in the car.' "

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

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

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

" I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country. "

" 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. "

" 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 love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed. "

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

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

" 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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" The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space. "

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

Indigenous People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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