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… — 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… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.… — 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
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
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are… — 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
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
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better. — 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
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big… — 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
I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how… — 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 real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. — 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
