With Animation, If Something Does Not Fit,

A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad. That Is What I Think.

I Think Animation Is Like Running A Marathon, And Making A Movie Is Like A 100 Meter Sprint. The Question Is: Are You A Marathon Man Or Are You A Sprinter? I Realized That I Was More Of A Sprinter Than A Marathon Man. With A Long, Long Project, I Get Bored Easily.

When You Make A Book Or You Make A Movie, It Is Almost Like Hitting On Somebody. It's Not Because You Want To Seduce People That You Will Seduce Them; You Can Hit On Somebody And It Doesn't Work. But When You Hit On Them And It Works, Then It's Really Cool.

If I Have One Message To Give To The Secular American People, It's That The World Is Not Divided Into Countries. The World Is Not Divided Between East And West. You Are American, I Am Iranian, We Don't Know Each Other, But We Talk Together And We Understand Each Other Perfectly. The Difference Between You And Your Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between You And Me. And The Difference Between Me And My Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between Me And You. And Our Governments Are Very Much The Same.

Any Medium Can Only Live Up To The Strengths Of The People Working In It. If It's Been Used To Tell Bad Or Boring Stories, It's Not A Problem With Comics; It's A Problem With The Writers Of Those Comics.