Taika Waititi

You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.

— Taika Waititi

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

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

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a…

— Taika Waititi

My favorite was 'The Lost Boys.' Corey Haim wore this trench coat, and I made my mum buy me a trench coat.…

— 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

I'm not very proud of coming from a place that everyone thinks is this pure green country whereas, in reality, all our…

— Taika Waititi

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

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

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero,…

— Taika Waititi

I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp…

— 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

If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not…

— Taika Waititi

The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and…

— Taika Waititi

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

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

— Taika Waititi

Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well.

— Taika Waititi

I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

— Taika Waititi

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

— Taika Waititi

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Taika Waititi

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

— Taika Waititi

I play music all the time because silence freaks me out.

— Taika Waititi

A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other.

— Taika Waititi

I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with,…

— Taika Waititi

I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being…

— Taika Waititi

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

— Taika Waititi

Kids are always very savvy. It doesn't take long for a kid to realize when an adult is a loser.

— Taika Waititi

You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working…

— Taika Waititi

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

— Taika Waititi