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 durin….

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret..

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

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

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….

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

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,….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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 ….