Marjane Satrapi Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
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.
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.
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.
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.
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 ask questions.
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.