With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
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