Sunday - The Cowboy and the Indian

If you don’t put in an effort at anything, well you might as well be a vegetable, mightn’t you? It’s effort and concentration that makes life worthwhile… and nice ladies around is a big help.

– Words of the late and great Burt Munro

Chuck a youie.

– Anthony Hopkins tries out his Kiwi accent

He catches me off guard. It’s like as though the ghost of Burt Munro was there in front of me.

– Roger Donaldson on Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Burt Munro

The problem is getting the accent. But Roger Donaldson said to me, "Well, don’t worry about it. In New Zealand they’ll probably pick you apart on the accent but around the world they won’t know so much."

– Anthony Hopkins on trying to perfect the Kiwi accent

He was very single minded, very eccentric, very determined… He never acknowledged that age could stop you doing anything.

– Roger Donaldson describes Burt Munro

...He’s a great director. I don’t use the word lightly, he’s a terrific director. A perfectionist and knows what he wants, and it’s a fine script that he wrote.

– Anthony Hopkins of working with director Roger Donaldson

Because it's a good script. But also, Burt is a sort of character I've never played before ... upbeat, unlike some of those other guys I've played.

– Anthony Hopkins on why he took the role of Burt Munro

We were different kinds of men then. We were both pretty feisty and belligerent; I was anyway. But things have changed. You know, you mellow out as you get older...

– Anthony Hopkins on working with Roger Donaldson on 1984 movie The Bounty

...it'll put him to bed for me, but I think it'll waken up to New Zealand to what a character this person was.

– Roger Donaldson on finally making his movie about Burt Munro