I Don't Make A Career Plan. I

I'm Very Open And Never Write What I'm Going To Say. Speeches Bore Everybody Else. I Have To Freestyle. Every Time, From One Program To Another, Everything Changes And I Improvise.

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.

I Really Didn't Know What To Think About The Veil. Deep Down I Was Very Religious But As A Family We Were Very Modern And Avant-garde. I Was Born With Religion. At The Age Of Six I Was Already Sure I Was The Last Prophet. This Was Few Years Before The Revolution.

Fear Has Always Been The Driving Force Behind All Dictators' Repression.

A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad. That Is What I Think.