Marjane Satrapi quotes - page 2

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it. (Marjane Satrapi)
My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe. View quote
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I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald. View quote
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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. View quote
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I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one. View quote
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People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation. View quote
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. View quote
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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. View quote
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A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think. View quote
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I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt. View quote
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I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. (Marjane Satrapi)
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. View quote
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If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.' View quote
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I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium. View quote
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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. View quote
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Cinema is a world of imagination. View quote
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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. View quote
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. (Marjane Satrapi)
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface. View quote
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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. View quote
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