We're Here to Help

This is a David and Goliath story ... there are only two certain things in life: death and taxes. To see a man struggle against that machine and succeed when he's been done wrong — I think the audience will be cheering by the end of it.

– Lead actor Erik Thomson, in the press kit for We're Here to Help

So now you're more his...sleeping partner?

– Inland revenue Department staff member Steve Arnett (Jason Hoyte) questions Dave's partner Kath (Miriama Smith)

You talk to one of my people like that again, and I'll come down here and I'll kick your fat ass from one end of Cashel Street to the other. Is that clear?

– Dave (Erik Thomson) meets Inland Revenue Department staff member Steve Arnett (Jason Hoyte)

He [Dave Henderson] sent me a box of transcripts and they were so funny. They were verbatim transcripts of these banal meetings ... whenever I was down I would just read those again and think 'this is great material'.

– Writer/director Jonothan Cullinane on Dave Henderson's tape recordings of meetings with the IRD, The Dominion-Post, November 2007

I thought, that's good because everyone will think I'm hot because Michael Hurst plays me. Then I turned up on the set and he was in a blobby suit.

– Rodney Hide on learning Michael Hurst was playing him on-film, The Sunday Star-Times, 30 September 2007

[Dave Henderson] kept fighting. He also kept both his sense of humour and his records — of every surreal phone conversation; of every demand; of every piece of paper. He kept fighting until his battle reached the very highest levels of government.

– From the press kit for We're Here to Help