Taika Waititi

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker and comedian who is famous for his films JoJo Rabbit and '''What We Do In The Shadows. '''He has been assessed by the admins of this site as ENFP.

Quotes

 * [On Martin Scorsese saying that Marvel movies are "not cinema":] "Well, its too late for them to change the name to 'Marvel -atic Universe.'"
 * "For me, one of the big messages behind [JoJo Rabbit] is learning how to think for yourself outside of what might be considered popular thought."
 * "As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things."
 * "sometimes you’ll be in the edit and you might think of an abrupt way of cutting a scene, or a piece of music, or something that is just a discovery. I don’t like to plan very much. I feel like I have some sort of a plan to fall back on, but I usually try and go into it very open minded."
 * “Americans love talking about feelings, to the point where it’s like, I don’t think you actually feel these things; you just like talking about these feelings. Which is what gives us the impression that Americans are fake.”
 * Esquire: "He has the boyish energy of a walking GIF."
 * Esquire: "But even as his bankability in Hollywood grows, he retains the energy of an outsider, the insatiable curiosity and lack of social pretense of a ten-year-old boy mixed with a kind of professorial intelligence."
 * The Gaurdian: "As a boy in New Zealand, Taika Waititi went through a phase of obsessively drawing swastikas all over his notebooks. He knew what Nazis were and what the symbol represented, he says. 'But you tell a kid they’re not allowed to do something, that it’s the worst thing to do, and they automatically want to do it.'”