You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

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

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.