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

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

" 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.' "

" My favorite was 'The Lost Boys.' Corey Haim wore this trench coat, and I made my mum buy me a trench coat. I wore it to school, to primary school. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I play music all the time because silence freaks me out. "

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

" 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. "

" I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge. "

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

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

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

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

" Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "