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.

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

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. 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.

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 don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.