I suppose he means “waves” are more “real” than “particles”. Even if you look at particles, they’re not clearly defined “billiard balls” but rather they too are kind of smeared out. So the word “particle” itself confuses the reaity of the thing. Everything is waves.
>inb4 waves of what/fields of what
I’m pretty sure we’ll never know the answer to that, anymore than we will know why the big bang happened in the first place. All we have access to is everything that happened after. And everything that happened after can be best understood in terms of waves.