Quotes from Marjane Satrapi

And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands virginity from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!

La vie ne tient qu'à si peu de chose, la vie n'est qu'un soupir ...

Celestial light, you are my choice, my last and my best choice.

Sadece yaÅŸad???m?z talihsizlikler tahammül edilebilir olduÄŸu sürece kendimiz için üzülebiliriz. Tahammül s?n?r?n? a??nca, katlan?lmaz olana katlanabilmek için halimize güleriz.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

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 interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

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 another, everything changes and I improvise.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

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.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

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 them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

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 come from, they are the same.

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 all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

Image is an international language.