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

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.