Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films..

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority..

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 durin….

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 ….

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things..

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….

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence..

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy..

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 y….

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,….

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 se….

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..

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 ….

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate..

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character..

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job..

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret..

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down..

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go..

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see..

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 fea….