Dream Catchers - Full Series

...a lot of the firsts in this country have been New Zealanders, Australians, Americans, and I think it's partly because we don't know that we ought not to do it.

– Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas on the success of expats in England, early in episode four

We made a deliberate decision to sort of push the New Zealand agenda in all sorts of ways . . . the wine is a really obvious thing, but also the work I do with New Zealand Beef and Lamb. You know, my kitchen at home's a Fisher and Paykel. The house, most of the ceramics here are from New Zealand...

– Chef and writer Peter Gordon on embracing the Kiwi connection in London, at the start of episode five

What I do at work, I don't always think of it as food, I think of it as a product I am working on and how you achieve it to make it look yummy...

– International food stylist Elaine Ngan describes her work, in episode five

I love gardens that are not too orderly, that are more unkempt, that have a feeling of excitement and exploration, that you don't know what's around the next corner — so you have to explore the garden rather than see it as a series of rooms, like many English gardens are.

– Landscape designer Anthony Paul describes his work, in episode six

I think being a New Zealander just gives you an openness to whole world thinking and a resilience. So if you can talk about our attributes of being a Kiwi as what makes us able to just say 'hey, we'll globalise our business', then yes, being a Kiwi is the greatest gift on the planet.

– Entrepreneur Katherine Corich, in episode eight

I always loved houses, loved decoration, loved 'lifestyle' I think. And it's difficult to know which one I love most. But I do remember at the age of sort of 13, 14, 15, 16 on a Saturday on my bike, always going around Auckland houses that were built and the big gardens that were being subdivided — going to look around them when they were building sites, thinking how I'd furnish them or decorate them. It was just probably within me that I just love beautiful houses or decoration...

– Interior decorator Veere Grenney on his New Zealand childhood, at the start of episode six

For me philanthropy is just an extension of what we're doing in everyday life you know, as businesses, as our family is. It's just part and parcel of it.

– Property magnate Kent Gardner on supporting charities, in episode eight

We didn’t consciously start a Māori club, it just happened. When I first arrived there would have been about five — five Māori people, we knew one another, and we didn't know any others.

– Esther Kerr Jessop on founding Māori club Ngāti Rānana in London, early in episode one

I think New Zealanders have a very unique comedic perspective because we get the American influence and we get the British influence, and it just goes into this little melting pot of our own sort of can-do, we're at the bottom of the world shouting up at it, sort of attitude.

– Comedian Jarred Christmas on Kiwi comedians, in episode two

You’ve got to pinch yourself every day. There's hard days but its well worth it — it's like the Rugby World Cup final for example , flying over that with New Zealand versus Australia, I never thought I’d be part of an event so important to me as a New Zealander like that. That was an incredible incredible day.

– Pilot Emmet Cox on flying with the Royal Air Force aerobatic team The Red Arrows, early in episode three

I think we were the first chef restaurant, that wasn't in a hotel, to begin serving breakfast . . . It just wasn't done, being open all day . . . So we introduced a New Zealand-Australian style of food and restauranting to Britain.

– Chef Peter Gordon on his old restaurant The Providores, at the start of episode five