I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

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.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.