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 →
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is... →
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression... →
My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me.... →
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of... →
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of... →
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation?... →
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated... →
In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad... →
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a... →
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If... →
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the... →
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton... →
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.