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.

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

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.

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've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

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.

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.