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.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

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

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

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.