The Real War Is Not

Well, I Would Have Much Preferred To Have Had A Normal Childhood. I Would Have Loved It If My Greatest Dilemma, At 14, Was Whether To Go To Benetton For My Pullovers. I Would Have Preferred Not To Have Cried All The Tears I Have Cried.

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.

I'm Not Somebody That Keeps The Thing In Her Heart. I Can Get Very Angry For Five Minutes, But Then It's Finished. Once I've Yelled, It's Over.

I Wanted To Do My Artistic Work, And In Iran You Have Censorship. It Was Difficult For Me To Do The Work I Wanted To Do.

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