You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
Cinema is a world of imagination.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..." - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.
It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
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.
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
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 way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.
