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. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It’s not like everybody is the same. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
I don’t like ‘graphic novel.’ It’s a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating – it’s just a media type. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
As a director, you have to understand what is happening – if I don’t understand it, you can’t make changes. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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 conscience. If there’s a God that created us, if I am bad, it’s his fault. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
I think with pictures; I’m a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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 bad people don’t always pay. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
