Life Is Absolutely Unbearable. And We're Going

With Animation, If Something Does Not Fit, You Always Have The Time To Change It. When You Make A Live-action Movie, When Your Days Of Shooting Are Over, They Are Over Forever.

Cinema Is A World Of Imagination.

Here's The Problem: The Description Of The World Is Always Reduced To Yes Or No, Black Or White. Superficial Stories. Superhero Stories. One Side Is The Good One. The Other One Is Evil.

I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My Country Since I Left Iran. People Had Watched This Stupid Movie Not Without My Daughter [in Which Sally Field Plays An American Who Rescues Her Daughter From Her Estranged In-laws In Iran]; I Heard So Many Things Like That. I Did Not Make Persepolis For Iranians. It Was My Answer To The Rest Of The World, To Say, "let Me Give You Another Point Of View."

If People Are Given The Chance To Experience Life In More Than One Country, They Will Hate A Little Less. It's Not A Miracle Potion, But Little By Little You Can Solve Problems In The Basement Of A Country, Not On The Surface.