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There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.Collection: Taika
The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.Collection: Taika
The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.Collection: Taika
I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.Collection: Taika
I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.Collection: Taika
Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.Collection: Taika
Films that are easy to sell happen to be the worst films. Look at the poster for 'Wrath of the Titans' and 'John Carter': they're exactly the same. You could switch titles.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.Collection: Taika
Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.Collection: Taika
Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.Collection: Taika
That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.Collection: Taika
Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.Collection: Taika
I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.Collection: Taika
I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.Collection: Taika
I love living in New Zealand.Collection: Taika
When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.Collection: Taika
As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.Collection: Taika
Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding.Collection: Taika
I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw.Collection: Taika
Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
You have to write what you know.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.Collection: Taika
Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time.Collection: Taika
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.Collection: Taika
I'm not very proud of coming from a place that everyone thinks is this pure green country whereas, in reality, all our lakes and waterways are poison.Collection: Taika
There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum.Collection: Taika
When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.Collection: Taika