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The Most Natural Thing For Us Is Drawing. The Characters [in Persepolis] Are Hand Drawn. We're Not Technical People. We Don't Know How To Type.

The Information I Have About Iran Is Second Hand.

The World Is Not About Batman And Robin Fighting The Joker; Things Are More Complicated Than That. And Nothing Is Scarier Than The People Who Try To Find Easy Answers To Complicated Questions.

If I Have One Message To Give To The Secular American People, It's That The World Is Not Divided Into Countries. The World Is Not Divided Between East And West. You Are American, I Am Iranian, We Don't Know Each Other, But We Talk Together And We Understand Each Other Perfectly. The Difference Between You And Your Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between You And Me. And The Difference Between Me And My Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between Me And You. And Our Governments Are Very Much The Same.

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