My Goal Was To Show That Even

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.

My Father Had A Super 8 Camera When I Was A Kid And Sometimes He Would Use It. I Did Some Animation With It. I Did A Lot Of Flipbooks.

I Like The Days When All The Filmmakers Had Was A Film Roll, A Camera And A Gangster. The Mack Sennett Comedies Were All Like That. They'd Create Little Teams To Go Out And Shoot Films.

I'm Attracted To Working With Comedians Because They Don't Have That Stars' Idea Of What A Hero Should Be. The Downside Is They're Always Addressing The Camera Too Much.

The Beauty Of Doing Film Is That You Construct Whatever You Do Block By Block And You Can Build Something That Will Stay.