It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

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.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.