I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

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

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

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

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