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 like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your… — 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
Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific… — 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 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 all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you… — 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
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
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — 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
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
