I Like To Make Mechanical Stuff. Once

I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My Country Since I Left Iran. People Had Watched This Stupid Movie Not Without My Daughter [in Which Sally Field Plays An American Who Rescues Her Daughter From Her Estranged In-laws In Iran]; I Heard So Many Things Like That. I Did Not Make Persepolis For Iranians. It Was My Answer To The Rest Of The World, To Say, "let Me Give You Another Point Of View."

It Is Dangerous When You Start Calling People From One Part Of The World Terrorists Or Fanatic, And You Reduce Them To Some Abstract Notion. If Evil Has A Geographical Place, And If The Evil Has A Name, That Is The Beginning Of Fascism. Real Life Is Not This Way. You Have Fanatics And Narrow-minded People Everywhere.

A Muslim Fanatic And A Christian Fanatic, A Jewish Fanatic, A Secular Fanatic, An Atheist Fanatic, A Communist Fanatic - All Of Them Are The Same. The Thinking That, 'if You Don't Think Like Me, That If You Are Not With Me, Then You Are Against Me;' This Is Something To Condemn.

Hunger Eats Civilization. The West Is Not Hungry; That's Why They Can Say They're So Civilized. Civilization Is The Biggest Bluff!

I Don't Watch Many Comic-book Movies. But I Loved 'sin City.'