Marjane Satrapi Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

• To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Watches, Three, Cinema

  "Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

• I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Decision, Together

  Source: collider.com

• I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Stuff, Film, I Can

  "Working with diva cats & Ryan Reynolds on ‘The Voices’: Director Marjane Satrapi tells all". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. February 6, 2015.

• I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Ideas, Design, Plot

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book, Cinema, Saws

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