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

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

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

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.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

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

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.