352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It’s not at all the same.

To each his own way of calming down.

If hair is as stimulating as you say then you need to shave your mustache.

You draw the character from all angles – side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don’t turn, it falls.

One must educate oneself.

I don’t want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

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.

Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it’s been used to tell bad or boring stories, it’s not a problem with comics; it’s a problem with the writers of those comics.