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" 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. "

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" I love living in New Zealand. "

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

Taika Waititi

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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. "

Taika Waititi

Doing

Myself

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad? "

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

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

" Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising. "

" 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. "

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

" I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting. "

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

" 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. "

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Big

Own

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Taika Waititi

Daydream

Time

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

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