“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today,… — 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
