Sam Neill Quotes

“Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent; it doesn't work.”

“I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.”

“I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot, which was in the common room at school. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.”

“If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.”

“I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about "Wilderpeople" that has really struck a chord.”

“I like Taika Waititi a lot. I thought "Boy" was a really wonderful film, very sad but also very funny. I thought "What We Do in the Shadows," the vampire film, was fantastic.”

“Whilst filming "Jurassic Park," I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later.”

“If I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned, and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!”

“As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.”

“If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspenseful, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.”

“I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.”

“If you want to learn about America, watch "The Wire." It's a profound piece of entertainment.”

"Dexter" I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.”

“I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.”

“I'm not as much of a moviegoer as I should be, and because I'm travelling so much, I end up seeing movies on aeroplanes, which is the worst possible way to see a movie!”

“I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.”

“It took me 30 years, but I finally bought myself the Patek Philippe watch I'd always wanted. It's ridiculous how much I love it.”

“I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.”