Cinema Is A World Of Imagination.

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.

My Mother Always Told Me I Had To Do 100 Times Better Than A Man. I Had To Work Hard At Maths, And Learn Four Languages.

A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad. That Is What I Think.

I Think The Best Work Of The Director Is To Listen To What All The Technicians Around Him Have To Say, But Then The Thing Is To Take The Best Decision, What You Think Is The Best. Then, That Is The Moment Where You Have To Have All The Film In Your Head And Imagine How All Of That Will Fit Together.

It's Fear That Makes Us Lose Our Conscience. It's Also What Transforms Us Into Cowards.