Taika Waititi Quotes

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

Taika Waititi

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Mother

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Future
  • Try
  • Fix

• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Day

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Hope

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Fly
  • Nothing
  • Airplane

• I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • End
  • Pride

• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Value
  • Price

• If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Character

• Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

  

  G. Harry Stine
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Years

• I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • Vision

• I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Want
  • Years
  • Weird