I'm Not A Religious Person

I Don't Consider Myself As A Feminist But More A Humanist.

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.

I Became The Voice Of A Generation In A Very Surprising Way, Because Many Iranians Recognize Themselves In It. But That Is Not What I Wanted.

I Realized That I Was More Of A Sprinter Than A Marathon Man. With A Long, Long Project, I Get Bored Easily.

I Have My Dark Side. You Have Your Dark Side. From The Second That We Have A Brain, There Are Things That Are Not Right - We Are Human Beings With All These Illusions And Complexes And Everything. That's Attractive To Me.