Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

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.

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.

Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.

We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.