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

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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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" You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids. "

" I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My job is to express myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking. "

" The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids. "

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

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

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