Sam Neill

I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

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 serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.

I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet.

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

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.

Do you know, I'm not as much of a moviegoer as I should be, and I do end up - 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 think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.

I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

I like Taika Waititi a lot. I thought 'Boy' was a really wonderful film, had great resonance. Very sad but also very funny. I thought 'What We Do in the Shadows,' the vampire film, was fantastic.

It makes the day considerably more enjoyable when you're working with people you think are good, and it makes your job easier, too.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across.

I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

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.

It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.

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 feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

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

It doesn't matter how popular an actor you are: nobody will remember you forever.