I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The… — 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
![“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…” quote by Marjane Satrapi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b21/marjane-satrapi-1702_answers_i-d-heard-so-many-stupidities-about-my-c_1318401.jpg)
