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.

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

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.