Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Read full biography of Marjane Satrapi →
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil... →
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... →
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same.... →
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce... →
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with... →
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a... →
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.... →
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to... →
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... →
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.