Explore Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

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

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

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

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

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

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.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

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

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

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

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

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

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.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Cinema is a world of imagination.