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.

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

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

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

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.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.