Taika Waititi

"I'm not a king, I'm a director. Well, actually I'm both, but mostly I just make things up as I go along."

"Love is basically just a lot of running around and making questionable decisions."

"If you're going to be immortal, you might as well have a sense of humor about it."

"The best part about being a god is that nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong."

"Friendship is just love with worse consequences."

"I've learned that the key to happiness is accepting that everything is terrible and then laughing about it."

"Success is 10% inspiration, 20% perspiration, and 70% showing up fashionably late."

"Change is like a bad haircut—you have to wait for it to grow back before you can appreciate it."

"The secret to life is pretending you know what you're doing while secretly panicking."

"Courage isn't about not being scared. It's about being scared and doing it anyway while making jokes."

"Family is complicated. Mostly because people are complicated. Especially gods."

"Hope is just optimism wearing a better outfit."

"Wisdom comes from making mistakes and then making the same mistakes again."

"The problem with power is that everyone wants it, and nobody deserves it."

"Time is a flat circle, but at least it's a funny flat circle."

"I don't believe in truth. I believe in really good stories."

"Peace is just war that's too exhausted to continue."

"Nature is beautiful, indifferent, and will kill you without thinking twice."

"Art is anything that makes you feel something, even if it's just regret."

"Music is the language spoken by people who can't figure out English."

"Faith is just hope with better PR."

"Work is what we do to avoid thinking about our problems."

"Dreams are just lies your brain tells you at night."

"Death is nature's way of telling you the party's over."

"Perseverance is just stubbornness with a better reputation."

"Gratitude is remembering that things could be worse, and they usually are."

"Creativity is making something nobody asked for and pretending it was intentional."

"Justice is whatever the guy with the biggest hammer says it is."

"Patience is a virtue, which means I have none."

"Kindness is usually a sign of weakness, unless you're doing it ironically."