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

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

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

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

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

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

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.