Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
[Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get; it's a very warming film. It's not sentimental, but people are sort of heart warmed by a message that's pretty rare.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.
You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.
I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.
This was only Taika Watiti fourth film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but I think he brings a very original way of looking at stuff and I think if you look at Boy, for instance, which is a beautiful film, that was his second feature, and it's heartbreakingly sad, but it's also simultaneously very funny. There are not many people who can do that.
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
