Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

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

Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.

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

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.

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