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Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- Scarfies (1999)
- Snakeskin (2001)
- A New Way Home (2001)
- The Tribe (2002) 1 episode
- The Strip (2002) 13 episodes
- Turangawaewae (2002)
- Tongan Ninja (2002)
- The Living Room (2003) ? episodes
- Revelations (2003) 1 episode
- Freaky (2003) 1 episode
- Heinous Crime (2004)
- Toy Boy (2004)
- Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! (2004)
- Futile Attraction (2004)
- What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires (2005)
- Falling Leaves (2005)
- Eagle vs Shark (2007)
- Flight of the Conchords (2007) 1 episode
- The Jaquie Brown Diaries (2009) 1 episode
- Boy (2010)
- The Fabulous Picture Show (2010) 1 episode
- Radiradirah (2010) 8 episodes
- Green Lantern (2011)
- What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
- Poi E (2016)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss By Passing Through the Gateway Chosen By the Holy Storsh (2018)
- All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks (2018) 6 episodes
- Shrimp (2018)
- Merata: How Mom Decolonized the Screen (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- What We Do in the Shadows (2019) 1 episode
- Year of the Rabbit (2019) 1 episode
- Jojo Rabbit (2019)
- Rick and Morty (2019) 1 episode
- The Mandalorian (2019) 3 episodes
- The Suicide Squad (2021)
- Free Guy (2021)
- Lightyear (2022)
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Trivia[]
- Often foregoes giving his actors a script for certain scenes so they don't know what's going to happen. Claims that it produces more "organic" and "natural reactions".
Quotes[]
- "Music ― it's motivational and just makes you relax."
- "My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic ― that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth."
- "In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life."