352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

It’s cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn’t even know anymore why I was living.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn’t ensure that you’re definitely going to make a good movie. There’s so many examples that prove that.

It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience. It’s also what transforms us into cowards.

It’s true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution – this is something that changes in the long term.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it’s better to do both.

I’m a very individualistic person. That is why I don’t belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

A well-trained cat doesn’t exist because a cat remains a cat.