Latest Sam Neill Quotes from Interviews

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• [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get; it's a very warming film. It's not sentimental, but people are sort of heart warmed by a message that's pretty rare.

  Sam Neill

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I think it took us all by surprise. I mean, I knew that people in New Zealand would like [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but no one really anticipated how much they would embrace it as it is. And it's playing widely in Australia now; they're running it as well. It's going to be interesting to see how it does it in the States, but I think if Sundance was any indication, I imagine it could do well.

  Sam Neill

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

  Sam Neill

  Firsts, Cases, Apprehension

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• You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

  Sam Neill

  Long, Scary, Way

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• This was only Taika Watiti fourth film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but I think he brings a very original way of looking at stuff and I think if you look at Boy, for instance, which is a beautiful film, that was his second feature, and it's heartbreakingly sad, but it's also simultaneously very funny. There are not many people who can do that.

  Sam Neill

  Beautiful, Boys, Thinking

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• The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

  Sam Neill

  Kids, Magic Realism, Giving

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• Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

  Sam Neill

  Magic Realism, Phrases, Literature

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• Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

  Sam Neill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

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• I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

  Sam Neill

  Men, Play, States

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• Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.

  Sam Neill

  Book, Age, Looks

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• Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

  Sam Neill

  Thoughtful, People, Actors

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• I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

  Sam Neill

  Actors, Imagine

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• I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

  Sam Neill

  Insecurity, Actors

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• Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

  Sam Neill

  Giving, Film, Bigs

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• You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

  Sam Neill

  Numbers, Acting, Actors

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