Life is too short to be lived badly.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

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 language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.