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

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

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.

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?