You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

Every living soul is given the grace of existence.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.