Michel Ocelot Quotes:

I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

Topics: World, May, Cinema

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.

Topics: Believe, Moving, Laughing, Make You Laugh

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.

Topics: Moving, Trying, Needs

I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.

Topics: Mean, Passionate, Film

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

Topics: Way, Messages, Fairy Tale

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

Topics: Way, Revolution, Needs, Movie Theater

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

Topics: Water, Ease, Fairy Tale

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

Topics: People, Say Anything, Want

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.

Topics: Giving, Film, Producers, Good Films

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

Topics: Baby, Children, Want

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.

Topics: Country, Office, Hollywood, Savoir Faire, Hollywood Studios

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.

Topics: People, Cinema, World

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

Topics: Able, Film, Seems

Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

Topics: Beautiful, Digital, Helping, Beautiful Images, Technicians

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.

Topics: Kids, Quality, Festivals, Film Festivals, Animated Films

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Topics: Ghetto, Here I Am, Film

No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.

Topics: Missing, Want, Flawless

I think that stereoscopic 3D will have to continue to develop. It's still quite archaic because of the glasses you have to wear.

Topics: Thinking, Glasses, Stills

For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

Topics: Moving, Games, Play, I'm Back

Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

Topics: Dream, Writing, Ideas, Dozing

My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

Topics: Inspiration, Stories, Fairy Tale

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.

Topics: Jobs, Phones, Energy

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

Topics: Hero, Belief, Film, Spokespeople

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

Topics: Festivals, Film, Sincere, Short Films

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.

Topics: People, Touching, Different

Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.

Topics: Country, Heart, Kids

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

Topics: Honest, Film, Periods, Honest Work

I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

Topics: Believe, Sleep, Up Early, Sleep Well

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

Topics: Jobs, Done, Nervous