For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

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.

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.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.