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.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

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'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.