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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 daydream all the time. "

" 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 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. "

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

" We all have to remember that New Zealand is built on these kind of people who are rebels and renegades, people doing it their own way, fighting for freedom, and braving the elements. I think it's cool to celebrate that. "

" 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. "

" My job is to express myself. "

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

" Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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