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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. "

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

" I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a little bit too much time with your nose in your book or with your fingers on a keyboard, and you miss out. "

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

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

" 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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" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 love living in New Zealand. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing cooler than going to work and hanging around with your friends and laughing, because it's something that you get told off for throughout your entire time at school... it's just like a big 'in your face' to those bully teachers that you had when you were a kid. "

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

" 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. "

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

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