One Can Forgive But One Should Never

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.

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'm Not A Religious Person At All.

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.

Comics Are Just Another Medium To Express Yourself. It's Not Cinema; It's Not Literature; It's Just Something Else. It Has A Specific Requirement, Which Is That Images Are Used To Tell The Story. There Are Lots Of Crappy Movies, With Guns And Action And Arnold Schwarzenegger Or Whatever.