I'm Not A Very Good Financing Person.

I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My Country Since I Left Iran. People Had Watched This Stupid Movie Not Without My Daughter [in Which Sally Field Plays An American Who Rescues Her Daughter From Her Estranged In-laws In Iran]; I Heard So Many Things Like That. I Did Not Make Persepolis For Iranians. It Was My Answer To The Rest Of The World, To Say, "let Me Give You Another Point Of View."

If You're Not [federico] Fellini You Might Make Something Very Vulgar. Animation Made It Possible To Maintain Unity With All These Different Narratives.

The Most Exciting Time Is When I Think Of An Idea And How I Imagine I Can Make It. It Would Be Wonderful If There Was A Projector Inside My Eye That And It Could Just Put The Idea On The Screen For People To See.

We Found Ourselves Veiled And Separated From Our Friends.

It's True That, In Iran, Women Have Half Of The Rights Men Do. And Yet 66 Per Cent Of Students Are Women.