'the Jungle Book.' It's One

I Wanted To Make A Real Love Story With A Bad Ending, Because A Love Story That Ends Good Is The Life Of Everyone - You And I, For Example. I Always Say To People, You Know, If Romeo And Juliet Got Married, Nobody Would Care About Them. Imagine Romeo And Juliet, Six Kids Yelling, Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa.

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."

I Don't Make A Career Plan. I Take Things The Way They Come.

I Never Wanted To Make A Graphic Novel. As Soon As You Become A 'writer,' You Have To Be Intelligent All The Time... I Like The Fact That I Have The Right Once In A While To Say Silly Things.

People, They Think That Animation Is A Style. Animation Is Just A Technique. It's Like, People, They Think That Comics Is A Style, Like Comics Is A Superhero Story. Comic Is Just A Narration, And Is A Medium, You Can Say Any Kind Of Story In Comics And You Can Say Of Any Kind Of Story In Animation.