I Don't Like The Word 'autobiography.' I

If I Have One Message To Give To The Secular American People, It's That The World Is Not Divided Into Countries. The World Is Not Divided Between East And West. You Are American, I Am Iranian, We Don't Know Each Other, But We Talk Together And We Understand Each Other Perfectly. The Difference Between You And Your Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between You And Me. And The Difference Between Me And My Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between Me And You. And Our Governments Are Very Much The Same.

For Me, Who Loves To Draw And Who Loves To Write And Cannot Choose Between One Or The Other, The Comic Is The Best Form.

Comics Are Just Another Medium To Express Yourself. It's Not Cinema; It's Not Literature; It's Just Something Else. It Has A Specific Requirement, Which Is That Images Are Used To Tell The Story. There Are Lots Of Crappy Movies, With Guns And Action And Arnold Schwarzenegger Or Whatever.

Not Everybody Loves Their Children. If That Was A Fact, All The Children Would Be Happy And They Would Make Happy Adults. Instead, We Have Lots Of Miserable Children That Later Became Miserable Adults. This Is A Fact. We Cannot Change That.

I Chose The Actors That I Was In Love With. I Cannot Work With People That I Don't Personally Like A Lot. They Can Be The Best Actor In The World, But If The First Contact Is Not Good, If I Don't Fall In Love With Them, Then I Don't Want To Work With Them. It's Impossible.