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.

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

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.

They laughed.They kissed.They loved.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.

Spring is the shortest season.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.