As A Director, You Have To Understand

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

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.

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.

Anything That Has A Relationship With Pleasure We Reject It. Eating, They Talk About Cholesterol; Making Love, They Talk About Aids; You Talk About Smoking, They Talk About Cancer. It's A Very Sick Society That Rejects Pleasure.

Teacher: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Marji: I'll Be A Prophet.