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" I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm not very proud of coming from a place that everyone thinks is this pure green country whereas, in reality, all our lakes and waterways are poison. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff. "

" 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. "

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

" I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies. "

" 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. "