Marjane Satrapi Quotes - Page 3

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• War always takes you by surprise.

  Marjane Satrapi

  War, Surprise

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• 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

  Heart, Needs, Want

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• 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.

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• You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Beautiful, Faithful, France

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• If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

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  Country, Hate, People

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• I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Should, Aggressors

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• You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Perfect, Moments, Happens

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

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  Civilization, West, Hunger

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Voice, Generations, Way

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.

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  Country, Real, Ties

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sarcasm, Bad Mood, Irony

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• For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Comic, Form

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

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• You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Mirrors, Cynical

  "Marjane Satrapi: 'A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.krvs.org. August 18, 2012.

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• America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, America, Special

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Eye, Thinking, Ideas

  "How to Film a Graphic Novel". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

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  Grandmother, Order, Law

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• A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

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  Real, Thinking, Stories

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• I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

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  Book, Sin City, Cities

  "How to film a graphic novel" by Marjane Satrapi, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I'm not a religious person at all.

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  Religious, Persons, Religious Person

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• 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.

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  Watches, Three, Cinema

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

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• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

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  Cancer, Sick, Smoking

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

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  Usual, Conclusion, Educate

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• 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.

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  Book, People, Hitting

  "Persepolis/Interview with Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Beth Accomando, www.kpbs.org. January 17, 2008.

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• I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

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  Envelopes, Freak, Bank Accounts

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• I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

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  Children, Kids, Two

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