To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

I distinctly remember watching Annie when I was very little and thinking 'I don't like this kid.' In fact I think I remember thinking 'I don't like any of these kids.' That's all I remember.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how people love to hate that character.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.