Taika Waititi Quotes

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.