Life Is Too Short To Be Lived

You Draw The Character From All Angles - Side, Profile, Back, Etc. So The Animator Has This Character In All The Ways It Looks Like.

I Loved Chiara Mastroianni Voice, Her Talent, Her Generosity. We Rehearsed For Two Months...she's A Workaholic And Perfectionist, Like Vincent [paronnaud] And Myself.

I Wrote The Plot [for The Persepolis ]and Vincent [paronnaud] And I Wrote And Discussed The Shooting Of The Script. Vincent Then Took Care Of The Production Design, The Actual Shooting, And What Was Going On Within Each Scene. It's Very Difficult, Though, To Draw A Line Between Who Did What. Because Vincent Would Say Something, And I Would Add Something, And At The End You Have This Film, Yet No Clear Idea Of Who Did What.

A Muslim Fanatic And A Christian Fanatic, A Jewish Fanatic, A Secular Fanatic, An Atheist Fanatic, A Communist Fanatic - All Of Them Are The Same. The Thinking That, 'if You Don't Think Like Me, That If You Are Not With Me, Then You Are Against Me;' This Is Something To Condemn.

I Chose The Actors That I Was In Love With. I Cannot Work With People That I Don't Personally Like A Lot. They Can Be The Best Actor In The World, But If The First Contact Is Not Good, If I Don't Fall In Love With Them, Then I Don't Want To Work With Them. It's Impossible.