Iranian - Artist | November 22, 1969 -
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
Marjane Satrapi
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I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.
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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.
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It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.
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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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Image is an international language.
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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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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.
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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
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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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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
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