Taika Waititi Quotes

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

We have got amazing filmmakers in New Zealand with amazing stories to tell, and I want to keep being a part of that.

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new generation like 'Ho Mann Jahaan,' which is a film I did of the youth of Pakistan.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I am extremely proud that our cinema is being recognised in the West. I want Indian cinema to get its dignity, not by giving them the kind of films they expect from us, but by making cinema in a way that carries the legacy of the mainstream masters forward.