Waititi Quotes

#1. Don't do more in your relationship. Do what you already do, differently.

Janice Hoffman

#2. If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not follow them down, because cameras don't do that. The audience understands that. I'll definitely bring that understanding of keeping things a bit more grounded.

Taika Waititi

#3. With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.

Taika Waititi

#4. I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

Taika Waititi

#5. My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. I'm really not trying to do everything that comes to mind because that's when it can be dangerous. For instance, I believe as much as possible, how your camera moves and flies around should be limited to the physics of how you could do it in real life.

Taika Waititi

#7. When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.

Tammara Webber

#8. Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.

Taika Waititi

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

Taika Waititi

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

Taika Waititi

#11. 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.

Taika Waititi

#12. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Elvis Presley

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

Taika Waititi

#14. Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

Taika Waititi

#15. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. Come not within the measure of my wrath.

William Shakespeare

#17. In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Bruno Rossi

#18. Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.

Taika Waititi

#19. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

#20. I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

Taika Waititi

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

Taika Waititi

#22. There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.

Taika Waititi

#23. The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Jacques Chirac

#24. Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.

Taika Waititi

#25. Evil is simply the absence of good, the absence of God.

Darynda Jones

#26. I'm gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.

Bo Burnham

#27. There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

Taika Waititi

#28. Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

Taika Waititi

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

Taika Waititi

#30. John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

Alissa York

#31. There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Matthew Bellamy

#32. The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

Jim Rohn

#33. Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

Taika Waititi

#34. Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.

Zig Ziglar

#35. A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

Taika Waititi

#36. 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."

Taika Waititi

#37. A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

Taika Waititi

#38. I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

Taika Waititi

#39. When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

Taika Waititi

#40. 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.

Taika Waititi