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I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

Taika Waititi

I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul.

Taika Waititi

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

Taika Waititi

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

Taika Waititi

The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.

Taika Waititi

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

Taika Waititi

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

Taika Waititi

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

Taika Waititi

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

Taika Waititi

My job is to express myself.

Taika Waititi

I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.

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In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

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I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

Taika Waititi

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.

Taika Waititi

I daydream all the time.

Taika Waititi

There's nothing cooler than going to work and hanging around with your friends and laughing, because it's something that you get told off for throughout your entire time at school... it's just like a big 'in your face' to those bully teachers that you had when you were a kid.

Taika Waititi

I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time.

Taika Waititi

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

Taika Waititi

To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money... Unless, that is, it's a film about an historical event.

Taika Waititi

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

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'Boy' was about my dad.

Taika Waititi

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.

Taika Waititi

'Eagle vs Shark' was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.

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'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

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The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

Taika Waititi

When you're on set, you're like, 'Everyone's judging me because I'm the director, and everyone thinks I'm doing this because I just love myself and I want to do everything.' Part of it's true: I do want to do everything, and I do kind of love myself.

Taika Waititi

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

Taika Waititi

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

Taika Waititi

My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like, 'Say this, say this! Say it this way!' I'll straight-up give Anthony Hopkins a line reading. I don't care.

Taika Waititi

When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.

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Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.

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I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.

Taika Waititi

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.

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A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other.

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It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

Taika Waititi

I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare.

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