I think sometimes there are films where I understand what they are about, but there are also some mysterious areas in the film where I haven't got the whole image and I haven't got everything. And then it stays much longer with me, because I have to somehow put myself much more into the film to get it. And so this is what I'm trying to do with my films.

I try to simplify things for the children.

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.

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

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