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

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

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.

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.

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.