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.

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

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.

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

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