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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.

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.

Business Is Very Personal. For Me, Everything Is Extremely Personal. With Actors, The Fact That I Write Helps, Because When You Say To An Actor "oh I Want You To Do It A Little Bit More ...," Without Saying What You Want More Of, Then The Actor Doesn't Know What To Do. But If You Can Put Into Words Exactly What You Want, Then The Experience Of Writing Is Helpful With That.

The Information I Have About Iran Is Second Hand.

My Real Background Was In Art Studies. At The Beginning I Was A Painter, Then I Was This Graphic Designer, Then I Became An Illustrator, Then I Was A Comic Artist. But For Me It's A Different Way Of Expression, A Different Field Of Art. They're Not Separated; Everything For Me Is Related.