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 don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

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

George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.