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One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

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My style of working is I'll often be behind the camera, or right next to the camera yelling words at people, like, 'Say this, say this! Say it this way!' I'll straight-up give Anthony Hopkins a line reading. I don't care.

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To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money... Unless, that is, it's a film about an historical event.

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We all have to remember that New Zealand is built on these kind of people who are rebels and renegades, people doing it their own way, fighting for freedom, and braving the elements. I think it's cool to celebrate that.

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I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

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I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro Valley in Wellington: growing up around a lot of theatre and poets and writers and stuff.

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Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.

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That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

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I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.

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I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Director

Born: August 16th, 1975

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