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
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults.… — 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
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when… — 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
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole… — 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
In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad… — 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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