I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

With digital, you can shoot longer, take more risks.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

I try to simplify things for the children.

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.