Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot.… — 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
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are… — 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
If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
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
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
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
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 any bad… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share
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