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.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

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

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

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

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.