Boys Quote by Ron Clements
![“We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really…” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b3c/ron-clements-54148_boys_we-really-wanted-someone-from-the-cultur_414613.jpg)
“We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really liked the idea.”
![“He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople]... Perfect as you can be.” quote by Rhys Darby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/833/rhys-darby-12111_couple_he-taika-watiti-worked-on-this-screenpla_2074685.jpg)
![“I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just…” quote by Donald Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0aa/donald-sutherland-14225_actors_i-m-running-out-of-time-and-a-western-is_3194083.jpg)
![“This was only Taika Watiti fourth film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but I think he brings a very original way of looking at stuff and I think if you look at Boy, for instance, which is a beautiful film, that was his second feature, and it's heartbreakingly sad, but it's also simultaneously very…” quote by Sam Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/491/sam-neill-10608_beautiful_this-was-only-taika-watiti-fourth-film-h_1284025.jpg)
![“We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.” quote by Billie Joe Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b2/billie-joe-armstrong-1888_able_we-stayed-very-close-to-each-other-with_1251588.jpg)
![“The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.” quote by Alex Abreu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6a/alex-abreu-19959_animation_the-film-boy-and-the-world-gave-me-the-p_981852.jpg)
![“[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical…” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38b/ron-clements-54148_bigger_john-musker-got-me-reading-the-mythology_145840.jpg)
![“It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4b/ron-clements-54148_familiar_it-was-really-john-s-musker-idea-to-begi_312411.jpg)
![“There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb9/ron-clements-54148_areas_there-are-stories-of-maui-everywhere-in_1414875.jpg)
![“Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the story. And we heard about Taika from people in the South Pacific that we talked to.” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b17/ron-clements-54148_girl_taika-waititi-came-up-we-kind-of-had-and_3168119.jpg)
