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

- Michel Ocelot

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.

- Michel Ocelot

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

- Michel Ocelot

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.

- Michel Ocelot

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 …

- Michel Ocelot

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…

- Michel Ocelot

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

- Michel Ocelot

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

- Michel Ocelot

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 no…

- Michel Ocelot