Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

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

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

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 think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.