I Almost Don't Know How

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.

Drawing Is The First Language Of The Human Being Before Writing. It's A Transcription Of How The Human Being Sees Reality, Not Reality Itself.

The Real War Is Not Between The West And The East. The Real War Is Between Intelligent And Stupid People.

'the Jungle Book.' It's One Of The Best Animated Films Ever. I Saw It When I Was Small At A Cinema In Tehran.

With Live-action I Think We'd Have Lost The Universal Appeal Of The Persepolis Story. With Live-action, It Would Have Turned Into A Story Of 'the Other' - People Living In A Distant Land Who Don't Look Like Us. It Might Have Been Exotic, But Also A "third-world" Story.