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
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — 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 wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then… — 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