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

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

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

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.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

The first version of everything is janky.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.