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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life. "

" 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. "

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

Indigenous People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them. "

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

" Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "

" I daydream all the time. "

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

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

" I love living in New Zealand. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk. "

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

" 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. "