I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

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.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

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