I Like Actors Who Don't Have To

The Problem Is, With A Lot Of Children's Films, They Are Very Commercial.

It's A Very American Thing That Everything Has To Be A Business. Americans Think... I Like America, Or I Would Not Be Here. There Are Great Qualities To This Country. But This Sense That Everything Has To Be A Business Is Sometimes Overwhelming.

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.

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 Like Collaboration, I Like To Incorporate Other People's Ideas [and] That's What Happens When You Do A Big Movie. Unless You're Called Stanley Kubrick And You Do An Independent Movie For Like $200 Million.