Every Great Idea Is On The Verge

I Hate Cynicism. I Wipe It From Me. I Don't Like Cynical People. I Don't Like Cynical Movies. Cynicism Is Very Easy. You Don't Have To Justify It. You Don't Have To Fight For It.

I'm Not Judging The Films. People Make These Connections Through A Film, Or Because They Know Them. But The Fact That They Erase Them And Have To Start From Scratch, I Think That's An Important Point. A Lot Of Kids, When They Have A Camera, Have Tended To Do Remakes Of Existing Films. You Have A Lot Of Kids That Make Star Wars. And I Think That's Creativity, But Not As Much Creativity As Starting From Scratch.

I Find, Surprisingly, That Actors Are Liberated In Their Work If There's Stuff Going On Around Them, Because They Can't Think Too Much About Who They're Supposed To Be.

Since I Was A Kid, I've Liked To See How Things Are Done. Sometimes When You See How Things Are Done, It's Like Watching A 'making Of' Within The Story. You See The Physical Aspect, The Construction Of Things.

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.