Life Is Too Short To Be Lived

Politicians Think They Have Answers For Everything. We Artists, We Only Have Questions.

That's The Story Of Life - When You Start Enjoying People, It's Always Too Late.

You See A Picture And You Understand Perfectly, Immediately, The Basic Thing That's Happening. It's Probably More Accessible Because We Are In A Culture Of Images. People Are Used To Seeing Stories That Way. They Understand Looking At Pictures.

I Wasn't Made To Take Orders. My Grandmother Used To Tell Me: 'laws Are For Idiots.' She Was Right.

I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My Country Since I Left Iran. People Had Watched This Stupid Movie Not Without My Daughter [in Which Sally Field Plays An American Who Rescues Her Daughter From Her Estranged In-laws In Iran]; I Heard So Many Things Like That. I Did Not Make Persepolis For Iranians. It Was My Answer To The Rest Of The World, To Say, "let Me Give You Another Point Of View."