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
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
There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — 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
The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images… — 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'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/quotes/img-quotes/b21/marjane-satrapi-1702_answers_i-d-heard-so-many-stupidities-about-my-c_1318401.jpg)
