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I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.
Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.
Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.
'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.
I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.
Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.
It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.
I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.
We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.
If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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.
I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.
It makes the day considerably more enjoyable when you're working with people you think are good, and it makes your job easier, too.
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet.
I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has really struck a chord.
You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.
In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.
Whilst filming 'Jurassic Park,' I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later.
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
I like Taika Waititi a lot. I thought 'Boy' was a really wonderful film, had great resonance. Very sad but also very funny. I thought 'What We Do in the Shadows,' the vampire film, was fantastic.
Do you know, I'm not as much of a moviegoer as I should be, and I do end up - because I'm travelling so much - I end up seeing movies on aeroplanes, which is the worst possible way to see a movie!
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.