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The Novels Have Done So Well Because The Drawings Are Abstract, Black-and-white. This Adds To The Universality Of The Story. "persepolis" Also Has Dreamlike Moments, And The Drawings Help Maintain Cohesion And Consistency.

My Culture Comes From Everywhere. I'm Sick Of This Notion Of Nationality, That If You're Brought Up In The Same City Or Same Country You're The Same. Even Three Kids Brought Up In The Same Family With The Same Genes, They Are Not The Same. Just Consider A Human A Human.

Imagine If I Cannot Stand Someone And Every Day He Is Here In My Face, Then I Cannot Work. Then, The Whole Time, I Am Thinking "i Hate Him, I Hate Him." But If I Love Him Or I Love Her, Then I Can Do Anything, Then I Am Comfortable. That's Why It's So Important To Be Surrounded By People That You Really Like.

There's This Scene In "the Night Of The Hunter" When The Kids Are Downstairs, And You Have The Feeling That They're Both In A Room And At The Same Time It Looks Remote. And You Wonder, How Can You Give The Effect Of Both "inside" And "outside" At The Same Time. And You Realize, By Watching It Many Times, That Around The Scene There's This Black Edging.

I Try To Look At Life Carefully And Reproduce Life The Way Life Is. It's A Question Of Looking Carefully At How It Is. In Life, You Don't Have Total Happiness. People Always Say That. But You Don't Have Total Sadness Either, No Matter What Situation You Are Living In.