My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced ... -Taika Waititi

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 involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.

Taika Waititi Quotes to Explore

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 ...

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...