Taika Waititi

"We've got a thing called the 'tall poppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'"

- Taika Waititi

"People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don’t think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should."

- Taika Waititi