I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.