About Quote by Marjane Satrapi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Marjane Satrapi

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

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

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