Hunger Eats Civilization. The West Is Not

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.

I Wanted To Make A Real Love Story With A Bad Ending, Because A Love Story That Ends Good Is The Life Of Everyone - You And I, For Example. I Always Say To People, You Know, If Romeo And Juliet Got Married, Nobody Would Care About Them. Imagine Romeo And Juliet, Six Kids Yelling, Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa.

There Are Things That I Love In Iranian Cinema And Things That I Don't. In Iranian Cinema, You Have To Use Metaphor Because You Are Living Under A Dictatorship.

The Novels Have Done So Well Because The Drawings Are Abstract, Black-and-white. This Adds To The Universality Of The Story. "persepolis" Also Has Dreamlike Moments, And The Drawings Help Maintain Cohesion And Consistency.

My Mother Was The Favorite Child Of Her Parents. My Father Was The Favorite Child Of His Parents. The Result Of These Two Favorite Children Was Me. And I Am An Only Child. So I Was Convinced That I Was The Center Of The Universe.