A Real Love Story Has To Finish

For Me George Bush Is Just As Scary, If Not More. Because He Doesn't Look Like A Scary Guy, Because He's Shaved And He Has A Tie On. But He's A Real Fanatic - A Fanatic By Definition Is The One Who Says, If You Are Not With Me, You Are Against Me, And That's Exactly The Position He Takes. The Mullahs In My Country, It's Obvious. But A Guy Who Says I Am The President Of The Biggest Secular Democracy In The World And Asks People To Read The Bible And Make Crusades And Says He's God's Best Friend - This Guy Is Even More Scary Because You Don't See It At The Beginning.

If You're Not [federico] Fellini You Might Make Something Very Vulgar. Animation Made It Possible To Maintain Unity With All These Different Narratives.

That's The Story Of Life - When You Start Enjoying People, It's Always Too Late.

Culture And Education Are The Lethal Weapons Against All Kinds Of Fundamentalism.

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.