I think that all stories – if you make movies about zombies and aliens – it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
It’s always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it’s really important to me. I don’t believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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 creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I’m happy, I just want to dance. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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 for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
I wasn’t made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: ‘Laws are for idiots.’ She was right. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
