Book Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

10 Book quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi offers ten succinct thoughts on books that echo her vivid, graphic‑novel sensibility. The quotes are a quick window into why reading fuels her creative fire.

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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.

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'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in…

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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

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I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

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The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are…

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My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.…

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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the…

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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want…

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In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what…

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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you…

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I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

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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…

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I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

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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…

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