Sam Quotes

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

We need to be fighting and rallying around the common American values. This is where the Democratic Party needs to learn and grow as we move forward.

Losing elections all across America, and the American people clearly saying the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the people, I don't know how much more objective you can get than that.

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies.