I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Films that are easy to sell happen to be the worst films. Look at the poster for 'Wrath of the Titans' and… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
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… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
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… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
