There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own… — 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 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 story of… — 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 of your… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 duty: to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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