Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.
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.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
[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.
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy. . . I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.