I Don't Watch Many Comic-book Movies. But

Today, We Don't Talk About History. The Past Is Two Weeks Ago, And The Future Is Two Weeks After.

There's This Scene In "the Night Of The Hunter" When The Kids Are Downstairs, And You Have The Feeling That They're Both In A Room And At The Same Time It Looks Remote. And You Wonder, How Can You Give The Effect Of Both "inside" And "outside" At The Same Time. And You Realize, By Watching It Many Times, That Around The Scene There's This Black Edging.

I Hate This Word 'graphic Novel.' It Is A Term Publishing Houses Have Created For The Bourgeois So They Wouldn't Be Ashamed Of Buying Comics... I'm Not A Graphic Novelist. I Am A Cartoonist And I Make Comics And I Am Very Happy About It.

The Most Natural Thing For Us Is Drawing. The Characters [in Persepolis] Are Hand Drawn. We're Not Technical People. We Don't Know How To Type.

I Never Wanted To Make A Graphic Novel. As Soon As You Become A 'writer,' You Have To Be Intelligent All The Time... I Like The Fact That I Have The Right Once In A While To Say Silly Things.