I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

We don't get montages or grand finales. We just eat dinner and do the dishes, and absolutely no one's going to clap their hands about it.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

This was about to go very bad, because Adam was going to cry. “I miss you, ” he said, and his voice broke.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.