It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

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.

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.

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.