Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.