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
hate publishing-house buying
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.
envelopes freak bank-accounts
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.
party believe justice
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.
long marathon meter
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.
careers way plans
I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.
smoking world want
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
feminist humanist
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
rights hands iran
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.
found
We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
usual conclusion educate
Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.
stuff film i-can
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
sacrifice thinking parent
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.
culture weapons kind
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
kids night giving
There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.