Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

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

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

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.

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

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.