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.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

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

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

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

The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.