I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

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

All big changes of the world come from words.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

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.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.