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.

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

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

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