At School I Was Very Shy. I

You Need Philosophy. It Sounds A Little Pompous But I Think When You Direct A Film, The Only Way To Find A Response To The Questions You Keep Asking Yourself Is To Have A Philosophy.

And I'm Not A Micromanagement Guy. I Prefer To Spend My Time Doing Other Stuff Than That.

The Idea That Competition Is Pointless Is Really Something That Speaks To Me, Especially In America Where Competition Is Really Prominent And Very Overwhelming, And It Doesn't Bring The Best Out In You Because What's Going To Push You Is To Bring Others Down.

That's What The Internet Is: It's Like Bombarding Your Eyeballs With These Myriad Blinking Colour Lights. It's Like Trying To Watch A Movie On Your Phone In The Middle Of Times Square.

I Think The Tools Were Always Available, For Decades And Decades, To Make Your Own Film And Be Creative. I Don't Think People Had To Wait For Youtube To Do This Type Of Small Project. Youtube, I Think It's Great. I Have This Idiotic Satisfaction. And I Think There's A Bit Of That In Youtube. You Share, True, But It's Centralized, And It's Already Sort Of Controlled. I'm More For Something That's Not A Centralized Medium. Like Doing Your Own Film And Screening It Yourself. You Cannot Control People Doing That.