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

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

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