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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am. "

" I love living in New Zealand. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like, 'Say this, say this! Say it this way!' I'll straight-up give Anthony Hopkins a line reading. I don't care. "

" Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "