32 Quotes by Jemaine Clement

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. [Laughs.] I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.

They're turnin' kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers But what's the real cost 'cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper Why are we still payin' so much for sneakers when you got them made by little slave kids? What are your overheads?!

Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.