I'm Not A Religious Person

The Best Thing I Ever Did In My Life Was To Ask, 'do I Like Everybody?' And The Answer Was, 'no.' So Why Should Everybody Like Me? If People Are Against Me, So What? I'm Against Them Too.

I Chose The Actors That I Was In Love With. I Cannot Work With People That I Don't Personally Like A Lot. They Can Be The Best Actor In The World, But If The First Contact Is Not Good, If I Don't Fall In Love With Them, Then I Don't Want To Work With Them. It's Impossible.

The Germans Sell Chemical Weapons To Iran And Iraq. The Wounded Are Then Sent To Germany To Be Treated. Veritable Human Guinea Pigs.

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.

It's Cinematographic To Smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall Without A Cigarette.