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

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" I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet.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. "

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

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

" 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 think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul. "

" The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space. "

" 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. "

" I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job. "

" 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. "

" Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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