As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

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.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.