My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I… — 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
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the… — 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
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet,… — 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
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
