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All big changes of the world come from words.
— Marjane Satrapi
One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.
— Marjane Satrapi
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
— 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
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
In every religion, you find the same extremists.
— Marjane Satrapi
War always takes you by surprise.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
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Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.
— Marjane Satrapi
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
— Marjane Satrapi
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
— Marjane Satrapi
One must educate oneself
— Marjane Satrapi
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
— Marjane Satrapi
Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ...
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
— Marjane Satrapi
I'm not a religious person at all.
— Marjane Satrapi
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
— Marjane Satrapi
The music that I hate the most is R&B.
— Marjane Satrapi
Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
— Marjane Satrapi
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.
— Marjane Satrapi
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
— Marjane Satrapi
A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
— Marjane Satrapi
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.
— 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 love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
— Marjane Satrapi
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
— Marjane Satrapi
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
— Marjane Satrapi
I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.
— 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 ask questions.
— Marjane Satrapi
The key to wisdom is doubt!
— Marjane Satrapi
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
— Marjane Satrapi
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
— Marjane Satrapi
Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.
— Marjane Satrapi
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
— Marjane Satrapi
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
— Marjane Satrapi
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
— Marjane Satrapi
One can forgive but one should never forget.
— Marjane Satrapi
You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.
— Marjane Satrapi
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
— Marjane Satrapi
I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
— Marjane Satrapi
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
— Marjane Satrapi
I almost don't know how to write an email.
— Marjane Satrapi
The information I have about Iran is second hand.
— Marjane Satrapi
To each his own way of calming down.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.
— Marjane Satrapi
Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.
— Marjane Satrapi
I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
— Marjane Satrapi
Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.
— Marjane Satrapi
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
— 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
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
— Marjane Satrapi
I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.
— Marjane Satrapi
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
— Marjane Satrapi
A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.
— Marjane Satrapi
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
— Marjane Satrapi
Cinema is a world of imagination.
— Marjane Satrapi
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
— Marjane Satrapi
Image is an international language.
— Marjane Satrapi
Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— 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 I wanted.
— Marjane Satrapi
I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
— Marjane Satrapi
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
— Marjane Satrapi
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.
— Marjane Satrapi
I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
— Marjane Satrapi
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
— Marjane Satrapi
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
— Marjane Satrapi
Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!! — Marjane Satrapi
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
— Marjane Satrapi
Life is too short to be lived badly.
— Marjane Satrapi
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
Love is the opposite of good sense.
— Marjane Satrapi
Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!
— Marjane Satrapi
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.
— Marjane Satrapi
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
— Marjane Satrapi
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
— Marjane Satrapi
I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.
— Marjane Satrapi
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
— Marjane Satrapi
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
— Marjane Satrapi
The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.
— Marjane Satrapi