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All big changes of the world come from words.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

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

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

War always takes you by surprise.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

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

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

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

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

One must educate oneself

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ...

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

The music that I hate the most is R&B.

Saying goodbye is a little like dying.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

One can forgive but one should never forget.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Marji: I'll be a prophet.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

I almost don't know how to write an email.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

To each his own way of calming down.

You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

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

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Image is an international language.

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Would you like to become my wife?"
"Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

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

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

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

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.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.