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“I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.”

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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…

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That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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You have to write what you know.

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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…

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I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

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Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was…

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from…

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Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's…

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in…

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What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

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When we watch a film as actors, you have to understand that we always see much more than what's on screen.

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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

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The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if…

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No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty…

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