I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

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.

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.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

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

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

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.