At School I Was Very Shy. I

It's Very Hard To Say I'm Surrealist. It's Like Saying I'm Poetic. It's Not Something You Want Necessarily To Be Aware Of.

I've Always Liked The Idea Of Inventing Stuff. My Father Told Me, Because I Was Naïve, I Would Think Things Could Work And Therefore Do Them, Because I Would Have No Doubt Even Though There Was No Solid Foundation For This Confidence. I Don't Think I Would Be A Real Inventor. But When I Set Out To Do Animation, Which Was My First Step Into Film-making, I Realised I Could Achieve This Idea. I Could Take Some Elements, Create A Sort Of Clumsy Invention, And Make Them Work For The Camera.

Michael Jackson Will Always Be My Favorite Pop Musician; He Was For Years And Years Until His Death, Which Was Horrible To Me. So I Like Pop Culture. But To Me, Even If It's Popular, There Is A Quality In The Music You Have To Be Able To Appreciate.

If You Take A Child From South Africa And You Put Them In Boston, They're Going To Speak With A Boston Accent. And So, That's A Way To See The World As Everybody Is Equal, Not As A Result Of Politics, But As Human Beings.

Pop Music Is Created By Repression - And Then The System Takes It And Makes Even More Money With It!