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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. "

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" Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother who are almost like strangers and acquaintances. "

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" 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 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. "

" In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good. "

" A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" I'm not interested in doing work that doesn't captivate me. "

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

" I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw. "

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

" My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth. "

" The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies. "

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

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

" My job is to express myself. "

" 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.' "

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

" I love living in New Zealand. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "