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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Taika Waititi

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Famous

" 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. "

Taika Waititi

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Myself

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

" 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. "

Taika Waititi

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Own

" My job is to express myself. "

" Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate. "

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

Taika Waititi

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that. "

" There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum. "

Taika Waititi

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Jeff

" 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'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long time. "

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

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

" When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies. "

" I love living in New Zealand. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho. "

" 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. "

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