I Don't Make A Career Plan. I

People Are So Afraid To Say The Word "comic". It Makes You Think Of A Grown Man With Pimples, A Ponytail And A Big Belly. Change It To "graphic Novel" And That Disappears.

Life Is Absolutely Unbearable. And We're Going To Die.

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 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.

There's This Scene In "the Night Of The Hunter" When The Kids Are Downstairs, And You Have The Feeling That They're Both In A Room And At The Same Time It Looks Remote. And You Wonder, How Can You Give The Effect Of Both "inside" And "outside" At The Same Time. And You Realize, By Watching It Many Times, That Around The Scene There's This Black Edging.