I don't have any room in my heart for that character…

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…

— Taika Waititi

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

— Taika Waititi

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

— Taika Waititi

In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or…

— Taika Waititi

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…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

New Zealand was such a weird place in the 1980s. For instance, we used to have this commercial in the late 1970s where this…

— Taika Waititi

I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a…

— Taika Waititi

I loved him [Ke Huy Quan as Short-Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom] - everyone loved him when I saw the…

— Taika Waititi

You have to write what you know.

— Taika Waititi

I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum.

— Taika Waititi