Taika Waititi

I come from a big extended family, so it's very normal to be around babies for us, but when it's your own,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

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

— Taika Waititi

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

— Taika Waititi

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

— Taika Waititi

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero…

— Taika Waititi

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories…

— Taika Waititi

There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

— Taika Waititi

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

— Taika Waititi

I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode.

— Taika Waititi

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day,…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi