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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls. "

" 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 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. "

" You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills. "

" I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money... Unless, that is, it's a film about an historical event. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "