I Find, Surprisingly, That Actors Are Liberated

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.

I Want To Explore New Ideas And Put Myself In A Place Where I Can Finish A Project That Is More Unusual Or That Doesn't Seem Doable.

I Shoot People In A Way That Makes The Audience Feel Equal To Them. And It's Hard To Express And It's Hard To Execute But I Think It Works On Every Level - The Choice Of The Material The Choice Of The Actor, My Relationship With The Actor, And So On.

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.

When People Are Very Original, Sometimes They Are Original As A Way To Resist The Mainstream.