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

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

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

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

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.