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.

  Michel Ocelot

  World, May, Cinema

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• 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

  Moving, Trying, Needs

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• 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.

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  Believe, Moving, Laughing

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Way, Messages, Fairy Tale

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Baby, Children, Want

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• 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

  Mean, Passionate, Film

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• 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

  Way, Revolution, Needs

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• 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

  Water, Ease, Fairy Tale

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

  Michel Ocelot

  People, Say Anything, Want

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Inspiration, Stories, Fairy Tale

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Believe, Sleep, Up Early

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Honest, Film, Periods

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

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  Able, Film, Seems

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

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  People, Cinema, World

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Jobs, Phones, Energy

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Jobs, Done, Nervous

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Hero, Belief, Film

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Festivals, Film, Sincere

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  People, Touching, Different

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Country, Heart, Kids

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• 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.

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  Country, Office, Hollywood

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Thinking, Glasses, Stills

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

  Michel Ocelot

  Ghetto, Here I Am, Film

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• 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.

  Michel Ocelot

  Kids, Quality, Festivals

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