I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get bored of doing the same thing again. I just get bored.

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?" "It depends on whether or not I get an answer.

Wise men still seek Him today.

I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.