Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

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.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which Sally Field plays an American who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in Iran]; I heard so many things like that. I did not make Persepolis for Iranians. It was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "Let me give you another point of view."

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.