The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and… — 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
I was in love with Darth Vader. He was extremely sexy to me. Once I had almost a sexual dream about Darth… — 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… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own… — 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
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to… — 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
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
