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 funny. There are not many people who can do that.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.