Marjane Satrapi Quotes - Page 4

I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

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 means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

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 are living under a dictatorship.

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

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

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.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.