“Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.… — 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
