I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

I'm not a religious person at all.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

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.

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

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.