98 Quotes by Taika Waititi

Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate.

Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

I'm not interested in doing work that doesn't captivate me.

'Eagle vs Shark' was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.

I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.