I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and it takes about six years to come out the other end. And sometimes it doesn't even come out. And sometimes it comes out as a different idea. So we've out the idea of We're Wolves into the machine, and it's now slowly going through the sausage maker.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.