.TaikaWaititi on comedy projects at the TIME100 Summit: “In terms of telling a story, it’s the best we have'
. But the multi-hyphenate—he’s also an actor, writer, producer, and TV creator—can’t easily be put in a box as just a blockbuster auteur; he is just as comfortable working on indie projects.
Similarly, his style as a filmmaker is an unpredictable mix of light and dark. In a free-wheeling conversation with TIME’s Molly Ball at the 2022on Tuesday, Waititi shared some insight into why comedy is the right vehicle to deliver important messages. “In terms of telling a story, it’s the best we have,” he said of comedy projects: they make audiences let their guards down. His idiosyncratic 2019 moviewas a good example of this approach, he explained: “In terms of Holocaust stories, they need to keep being told, but we need different approaches to them. If we never change or pivot or try a new direction, the story gets old.” “If we’re not retelling these stories… it will happen again,” he said.
Waititi also made the audience laugh with his reflections on growing up in a tiny town in New Zealand, his mixed Jewish and Maori roots, and what it means to be an indigenous filmmaker. “If you call yourself an indigenous filmmaker, you don’t always have to put a tribal person in your film playing a wind flute on a mountain talking to the ghost of your grandmother,” he said. “I don’t go around talking to trees or riding whales,” he joked.
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