Top 180 Marjane Satrapi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.”

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102. “They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that’s banned.”

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103. “The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.”

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104. “Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution – this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don’t talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.”

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105. “To each his own way of calming down.”

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106. “Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.”

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107. “The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It’s not at all the same.”

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108. “I’m not a religious person at all.”

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109. “Dalam hidup kau akan bertemu banyak orang brengsek. Kalau mereka menyakitimu, katakan pada dirimu sendiri itu karena mereka bodoh. Itu akan membantu mencegahmu bereaksi pada kekejaman mereka. Karena tidak ada yang lebih buruk daripada kebencian dan balas dendam. Selalu jaga martabatmu dan jujurlah pada dirimu sendiri.”

— Marjane Satrapi

110. “The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. “Persepolis” also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.”

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111. “Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it’s even worse.”

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112. “A cat can never be well-trained because they’re too independent.”

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113. “Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there’s a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there’s more efficiency.”

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114. “I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.”

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115. “If today I have to make a political statement, it is, ‘I love beauty.’ I think beauty makes people better.”

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116. “Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it’s completely blank.”

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117. “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.”

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118. “I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.”

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119. “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.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I’m not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “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.”

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124. “Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.”

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125. “I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.”

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126. “It’s cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.”

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127. “I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.”

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128. “In retrospect, I can see that I had always known that it wouldn’t between us. But after my pitiful love story in Vienna, I needed to believe in someone again...”

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129. “If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I’m happy, I just want to dance.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “I don’t like ‘graphic novel.’ It’s a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating – it’s just a media type.”

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134. “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.”

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135. “I don’t consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.”

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136. “To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.”

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137. “Don’t worry about it, my child. Tell yourself that you are experiencing a true love story. But of course. Have you ever seen anyone write a poem about the woman he married and who yells at him four times a day? Do you think that if Romeo and Juliet had had six children together, there would have been a book about them? You’re suffering! That’s why you’re playing so well now!”

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138. “I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.”

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139. “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.”

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140. “I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It’s a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don’t have total happiness. People always say that. But you don’t have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.”

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141. “I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don’t know what, behind my best friend, a book.”

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142. “Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don’t have with words.”

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

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144. “Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.”

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145. “Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution – this is something that changes in the long term.”

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146. “You don’t grow up, you grow old.”

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147. “I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “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.”

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150. “I don’t think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.”

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