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 →
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about... →
Image is an international language.
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women... →
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... →
All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they... →
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... →
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is... →
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... →
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.