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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
![“I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what…” quote by Marjane Satrapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/907/marjane-satrapi-1702_add_i-wrote-the-plot-for-the-persepolis-and_2327819.jpg)
