New Zealander - Director | August 16, 1975 -
'Boy' was about my dad.
Taika Waititi
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I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum.
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New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding.
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I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw.
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Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well.
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Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
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Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that.
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I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.
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I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare.
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You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.
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I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies.
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Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do it, and then it's hard to break them out of it.
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