Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.