Taika Waititi

I love living in New Zealand.

— Taika Waititi

I daydream all the time.

— Taika Waititi

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

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'Boy' was about my dad.

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There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum.

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My job is to express myself.

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You have to write what you know.

— Taika Waititi

As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.

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It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

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I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

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The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

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I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

— Taika Waititi

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

— Taika Waititi

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

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I'm not interested in doing work that doesn't captivate me.

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Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

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I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

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I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I…

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Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.

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I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how…

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I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming…

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I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the…

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People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate…

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I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't…

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A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor…

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Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For…

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I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy.…

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There's nothing cooler than going to work and hanging around with your friends and laughing, because it's something that you get told…

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The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At…

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My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like,…

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My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me…

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With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that…

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In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

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My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

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I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

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'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

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One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

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Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

— Taika Waititi

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

— Taika Waititi