My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

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.