What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

He is never cowardly.

Fasting is a medicine.