Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

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

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

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

Cinema is a world of imagination.