I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

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.

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.

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

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

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.