You Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

9 You quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi provides nine sharp observations on “You,” each bearing the bold, visual storytelling of her graphic work. The snippets feel like a quick visual essay on self‑perception.

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I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a…

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Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own…

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I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's…

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You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning…

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All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that…

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Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born…

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You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to…

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I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet,…

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I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

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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…

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I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

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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…

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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

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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…

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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…

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