One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

I'm never really nervous because I've done the maximum; now it's up to the audience to do its job.

I lost so much energy in taxis, planes, hotels, phone calls and interpreters. Now, with the help from my little successes, I do everything in the same place with everyone around me. That's how a good job gets done.

I'm a sorcerer because I start with nothing, and then, eventually, there is something. And I touch you, I move you, I make you laugh or cry, and you believe in what's happening on the screen, although I always show it's invented.

The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.