You may know Gaspar Noé for directing films filled with unstimulated sex, 3D cumshots, nine-minute rape scenes, incest, and – in his last feature film – a brutal exploration of what it’s like to live with dementia. Up next? Maybe something for the kids!

The director announced his desire to direct a children’s film in a recent interview with Variety at Cairo Film Festival, where he spoke about the genres he’d like to tackle in the future, including documentary, war film, and horror – or maybe a mix of all three. “I also would like to do a movie with young children,” he added, “or a movie for children.”

It wasn’t just a throwaway comment. “Kids are like small adults,” he explained at the event. “When we are kids we are in danger. You are exposed to everything. I’m very attached to kids in life, though I don’t have kids. The relationship you have with kids is direct and playful. I would like to do a movie with little kids. They relate to fragility, they relate to the dangers that they’re exposed to.”

If Noé’s kids’ film does come to fruition, though, it feels safe to say that it won’t be challenging the likes of Paddington in Peru at the box office. Among his own childhood cinema memories, he cites watching 2001: A Space Odyssey when he was six (“I didn’t even know what a foetus was. I asked what that big thing was at the end of the film”) and a Fassbinder film when he was ten. Needless to say, this was another informative experience: “I didn’t know what lesbians were,” he says, “and I was watching films about them.”

That said, he’s previously spoken to Dazed about remaking 2001 (a “perfect” film) in a totally different way. “A) in black and white, B) in 3D or C) with marionettes instead of actors, like Team America,” he suggested. Could this be his first foray into kids’ cinema: a reimagined version of the Kubrick classic, with cute puppets? HAL 9000 voiced by the guy who does Spongebob Squarepants? We can dream.