In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

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.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.