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.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

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

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

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.

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