I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

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.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

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.