Taika Waititi Quotes
-
I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.
-
I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.
-
I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.
-
I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."
-
I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.
-
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.
-
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
-
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.
-
To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
-
Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.
-
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.
-
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.
-
In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.
-
I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.
-
I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.
-
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.
-
Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.
-
I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.
-
Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.
-
Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.
-
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.