Revolutions Just Spread Blood. Evolution - This

I Wanted To Do My Artistic Work, And In Iran You Have Censorship. It Was Difficult For Me To Do The Work I Wanted To Do.

But Violence Is News, To A Certain Extent, And People Don't Want Complicated News. Because As Soon As You Realize Things Are Complicated, Your Life Becomes More Complicated.

I Don't Think Of Myself As A Rebel; I Just Say What I Think.

This Clash Of The Culture, East And The West, Us And Them, Muslim And Christian, Does Not Exist.

With Live-action I Think We'd Have Lost The Universal Appeal Of The Persepolis Story. With Live-action, It Would Have Turned Into A Story Of 'the Other' - People Living In A Distant Land Who Don't Look Like Us. It Might Have Been Exotic, But Also A "third-world" Story.