People Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

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

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Marjane Satrapi

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

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.…

— Marjane Satrapi

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

— Marjane Satrapi

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

— Marjane Satrapi

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and…

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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

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the…

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I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I…

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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

I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot.…

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Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about…

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Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad…

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For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved…

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I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter…

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If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The…

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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…

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You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in…

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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to…

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I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's…

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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

But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are…

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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

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So…

— Marjane Satrapi

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living…

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Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by…

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The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be…

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Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole…

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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big…

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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

I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life…

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You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning…

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I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet,…

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If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not…

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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…

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I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how…

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The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than…

— Marjane Satrapi