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.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

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.

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

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

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

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.