Satrapi Quotes: top 97 famous quotes about Satrapi

Satrapi Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Satrapi quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion? — 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

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. — Marjane Satrapi

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

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could. — 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

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed. — 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

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — 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

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Marji: I'll be a prophet. — 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 took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt. — 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

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. — 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

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea. — 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