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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by… — 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
You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — 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 have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than… — 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
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
![“Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.” quote by Marjane Satrapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6cd/marjane-satrapi-1702_expression_here-in-the-usa-you-have-the-best-laws-f_2260908.jpg)
![“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)
![“The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.” quote by Marjane Satrapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b33/marjane-satrapi-1702_character_the-most-natural-thing-for-us-is-drawing_2819351.jpg)
