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
writing drawing firsts
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
heart minutes angry
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.
religious persons religious-person
I'm not a religious person at all.
hate i-love-him thinking
Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole time, I am thinking "I hate him, I hate him." But if I love him or I love her, then I can do anything, then I am comfortable. That's why it's so important to be surrounded by people that you really like.
grandmother order law
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
unbearable life-is dies
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.
falling-in-love people actors
I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.
sadness people trying
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.
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.
writing email knows
I almost don't know how to write an email.
realize-things people news
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
kids thinking vacation
Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
writing drawing talking
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.