Cinema Is A World Of Imagination.

With Live-action I Think We'd Have Lost The Universal Appeal Of The Persepolis Story. With Live-action, It Would Have Turned Into A Story Of 'the Other' - People Living In A Distant Land Who Don't Look Like Us. It Might Have Been Exotic, But Also A "third-world" Story.

The Things That I Do Today Are The Things I Did As A Child. When I Was A Child, Either I Was Drawing Or I Was Taking All The Kids Off My Street And I Wanted To Make Shows - I Was All The Time Making! The Only Thing Is, Now I Know How To Do It Better, And Now They Give Me Money For It.

Once Again, I Arrived At My Usual Conclusion: One Must Educate Oneself.

Anything That Has A Relationship With Pleasure We Reject It. Eating, They Talk About Cholesterol; Making Love, They Talk About Aids; You Talk About Smoking, They Talk About Cancer. It's A Very Sick Society That Rejects Pleasure.

You See A Picture And You Understand Perfectly, Immediately, The Basic Thing That's Happening. It's Probably More Accessible Because We Are In A Culture Of Images. People Are Used To Seeing Stories That Way. They Understand Looking At Pictures.