I’m not a very good financing person. I don’t even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank – they freak me out.
I’m a very individualistic person. That is why I don’t belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.
I don’t make a career plan. I take things the way they come.
I don’t want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
I don’t consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it’s better to do both.
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don’t resemble them exactly. But there’s something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.
Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it’s completely blank.
War always takes you by surprise.
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
I realized then that I didn’t understand anything. I read all the books I could.
The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It’s not at all the same.
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.
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
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.