I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

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

I try to simplify things for the children.

It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.

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.