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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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