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

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

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

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

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.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

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.