I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I ... -Taika Waititi

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long time.

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I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...

I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to com...

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies....

I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor....

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 ...

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...

I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space....

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax....

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 fr...

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 ...

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...

The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...

In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...

I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...