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

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.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

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

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

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.