I will just leave you with this idea: Stop asking us what to do, how to fix things, all right? I’m so tired of this, I’m so tired of this stuff. The diversity conversation, inclusivity conversation, all the conversations. All of us wanna be working and not having to come and do fckin panels and speeches in the middle of our day.

This is a great thing, it’s good that we’re talking about it, we have to keep talking about it, but this is the shit you got us doing. You wonder why there’s no Indigenous stuff out there? This is the sht you got us doing. All right? Making us come and talk about the problem and tell you how to fix it. You fckin broke it, you fix it. But, don’t fckin ask us what to do.

It’s like someone coming into your house, stealing all your shit and burning your house down., and then saying , ‘Okay, we need to have a talk about this.’ And then saying, ‘now, you’re gonna rebuild your house.’ ‘Me?’ ‘And, what can we give you to help you rebuild your house that we burnt down?’ You build the fckin house, you burned it down, and I’ll come back and hopefully you get it right and if you don’t get it right, then we’ll try again.

-Taika Waititi, The Hollywood Reporter, Raising Our Voices Luncheon, 2023