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

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

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

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

What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to have weird scenes to do or weird things to do, like playing deaf, or playing sick, or swimming in the water.

I try to simplify things for the children.