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'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think. — 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
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 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
Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the… — 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
We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions. — 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
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore… — 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
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — 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
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
