Roger Donaldson is notable for spearheading the Kiwi film renaissance with Sleeping Dogs (1977). Based in Hollywood since the early 1980s, his first homemade film since Smash Palace (1981) was the hugely popular Burt Munro biopic The World’s Fastest Indian, which was the most successful NZ film at the local box office as of 2008.
Any lucky chances I got came from working 80 hours a week
– Roger Donaldson