It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.

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.

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.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

One can forgive but one should never forget.