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.

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

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

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

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

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.