It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a ver…

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to ha…

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the mai…

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

I think sometimes there are films where I understand what they are about, but there are also some mysterious areas in the film where I haven't got th…

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indica…

- Lucile Hadzihalilovic