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We Always Say We Are Equal In Front Of Death, But When You Are Rich, For Example, And You Have Everybody Taking Care Of You, I Think That You Suffer Much Less. It Must Be Much More Painful To Die When You Are Poor Than When You Are Rich. But When Your Heart Is Broken, You Can Be Rich, Poor, Whatever - A Broken Heart, We Are All Equal In Front Of It. And I Think There Is No Subject More Serious.

I Try To Look At Life Carefully And Reproduce Life The Way Life Is. It's A Question Of Looking Carefully At How It Is. In Life, You Don't Have Total Happiness. People Always Say That. But You Don't Have Total Sadness Either, No Matter What Situation You Are Living In.

You Know, They Say In France That Translation Is Like A Woman: She Is Either Beautiful Or Faithful.

Graphic Novels Are Not Traditional Literature, But That Does Not Mean They Are Second-rate. Images Are A Way Of Writing. When You Have The Talent To Be Able To Write And To Draw, It Seems A Shame To Choose One. I Think It's Better To Do Both.

I Wrote The Plot [for The Persepolis ]and Vincent [paronnaud] And I Wrote And Discussed The Shooting Of The Script. Vincent Then Took Care Of The Production Design, The Actual Shooting, And What Was Going On Within Each Scene. It's Very Difficult, Though, To Draw A Line Between Who Did What. Because Vincent Would Say Something, And I Would Add Something, And At The End You Have This Film, Yet No Clear Idea Of Who Did What.