My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me… — 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
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
With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — 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 think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do… — 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
