Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapiis an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1969
CityRasht, Iran
long political house
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?
pigs iran iraq
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
true-or-false tales being-true
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
extremist
In every religion, you find the same extremists.
nice people redemption
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.
sarcasm bad-mood irony
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
directors making-changes ifs
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
tired people fairytale
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.
coward loses conscience
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
hands iran information
The information I have about Iran is second hand.
cancer sick smoking
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
love-is thinking people
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
independent cat wells
A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.
unity narrative might
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.