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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the idea that childhood passions can evolve into adult careers.
In this quote, Marjane Satrapi expresses how her childhood activities of creating shows and drawing have seamlessly transitioned into her adult life as an artist and creator. She highlights the continuity of her passions over time, revealing that her current work involves the same creativity and collaboration she engaged in during her childhood, with the added benefit of being compensated for her efforts.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of nurturing creativity in children.
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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.
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
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.
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
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