Quotes by Taika Waititi - Page 3

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Teacher
Artist
Different
English Teacher
Involved
Mother
Taste
Theatre
Visual
Arts
Books
English
Read
Developed
Forced
Him
Influenced
Varied
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I loved him [Ke Huy Quan as Short-Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom] - everyone loved him when I saw the film. Now I'm a grown-up and I watch it I'm not so sure - he's so loud. He yells for the entire film.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Indiana
Saws
Watches
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We all have to remember that New Zealand is built on these kind of people who are rebels and renegades, people doing it their own way, fighting for freedom, and braving the elements. I think it's cool to celebrate that.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Celebrate
Elements
New Zealand
Rebels
Zealand
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Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Running
Crazy
Thinking
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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 / Film Director
Hopkins
Yelling
Anthony Hopkins
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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 / Film Director
Fake
Teeth
Vampire
Time Movies Remember
Sharp
Vampire Movies
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I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro Valley in Wellington: growing up around a lot of theatre and poets and writers and stuff.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Upbringing
Wellington
Contrasted
Poets
Valley
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I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Authority
Laughing
Margins
Poor
Poor People
Position
Privileged
Underdog
People Poor Live
Unless
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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 / Film Director
Closest
Family Unit
Life Family Your
Life Family Parents
Distances
Unit
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A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Filmmaking
Work Home Me
Content
Rest
Films
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I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a little bit too much time with your nose in your book or with your fingers on a keyboard, and you miss out.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Fingers
Nose
Too Much Time
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New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Funding
Middle Of The Road
New Zealand
Reputation
Versions
Nomination
Zealand
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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 / Film Director
Judging
Love Myself Me
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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.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Identical
Nightmare
Numbers
Recurring
More And More
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I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Annoying
Elements
Flawed
Caused
People See Things
People See Where
Villains
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I'm really not trying to do everything that comes to mind because that's when it can be dangerous. For instance, I believe as much as possible, how your camera moves and flies around should be limited to the physics of how you could do it in real life.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Believe
Moving
Real
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The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Home
Space
Broken
Film
Guy
Heart
Hours
Simple
After
Budget
Deal
Set
Few
Indie
Indie Film
Story
Thor
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With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Facts
Play
Want
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We've got a thing called the 'tall puppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Moon
New Zealand
Plenty
Puppy
Tall
People New Doing
Cut
To The Moon
Zealand
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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 / Film Director
Time Work Face
Cooler
Entire Time
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If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not follow them down, because cameras don't do that. The audience understands that. I'll definitely bring that understanding of keeping things a bit more grounded.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Running
Character
Understanding
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When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Art
People
Writing
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Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.
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Laughing
People
Thinking
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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 / Film Director
Funny
Opportunity
Clumsy
Funny People
Nerdy
Serious
Spiritual
Stories
Stuff
Opportunity I Am People
Pretty
Quite
Show
Side
Idea
Pigeonholed
Rider
Telling
Warriors
Whale
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New Zealand was such a weird place in the 1980s. For instance, we used to have this commercial in the late 1970s where this guy drives this car and stops outside a corner store. He goes in to buy something, and when he comes out, his car is gone. He's like, 'Huh?' Then a voice says, 'Don't leave your keys in the car.'
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Car
Guy
Instance
Late
New Zealand
Used
Voice
Weird
Buy
Commercial
Corner
Drives
Leave
Goes
Huh
Stops
Outside
Says
Zealand
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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.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Ideas
Long
Years
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I remember being in Dublin in a café and seeing him [Jack Gleeson] two or three years ago, and he came in - Joffrey[from the Game of Thrones] came in - and I remember being so star-struck. I don't like famous people and I don't really get star-struck. But I remember seeing him and being so impressed that he was walking around. So I really like Joffrey.
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Games
Stars
Two
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My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you see, it's a great film with a great story in and of itself. The lucky thing is that there's a bunch of geniuses who run Marvel that make sure, even if it's a standalone piece, that it's part of a great big jigsaw puzzle that could be appreciated as a whole as well.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Running
Genius
Lucky
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