Life Is Too Short To Be Lived

In All The Dictatorships, There's Such A Non-understanding Of What Human Beings Are. I Mean, If You Believe In The Bible, You Have The Story Of Adam And Eve And God Tells Them, "do Whatever You Want. The Only Thing You Shouldn't Do Is Eat The Apple." What Do They Do The First Thing? They Eat The Apple. So If You Know A Little Bit The Psychology Of Human Beings, You Have To Understand That If You Say Something You Should Not Do, Then Everybody Wants To Do It.

Image Is An International Language.

I Was A Westerner In Iran, An Iranian In The West. I Had No Identity. I Didn't Even Know Anymore Why I Was Living.

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.

There Are Things That I Love In Iranian Cinema And Things That I Don't. In Iranian Cinema, You Have To Use Metaphor Because You Are Living Under A Dictatorship.