The General Grant ... Where It Isn't

It’s guys like us, with guts, that’s going to get this country out of the shit.

– Terry the engineer

That theory of Terry’s [is]: when you’re working on a car and you drop a bolt ... it’s never where you think it is.

– One of the Savage brothers on Terry’s hypothesis

There is plenty that conveys the peculiar Kiwi sensibility of stubborn optimism in the face of failure.

– Olivia Kember in a 31 January 2004 Listener article on the film

When I met these guys in Bluff, I’d already been researching it for six months, so I knew they didn’t know what the hell they were doing. But we went anyway. Because they just might have done it. And we had the gear, the time off work – we were ready to go. F—ed if we were going to turn around just ’cause they didn’t know what they were doing.

– Director Samuel Richards on chasing fool’s gold, in The Listener, 31 January 2004