Taika Waititi Quotes

Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

I don't always understand my worth.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

You should be unique, you should be confident, and that's how people remember who you are. You have to be willing to share who you are and your story.

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

I don't have any doubt in myself.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

I've grown from being around other singers. I've learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own songs and discovering how to tell my own story properly.

I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.