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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian Artist
Born: Nov 22, 1969
Life Me People Think World You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Edvard Munch Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it. Marjane Satrapi
You Cinema Language Own Believe Think Everyone Way Say Find About American Storytelling Much Speaking
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium. Marjane Satrapi
Sad You Once Like Equilibrium While Your Need
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. Marjane Satrapi
Cigarette Lauren Smoke Without Imagine
I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think. Marjane Satrapi
Myself Think Say Just Rebel
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried. Marjane Satrapi
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Image is an international language. Marjane Satrapi
Language International International Language Image
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!' Marjane Satrapi
You People Care Papa Say Kids Married Would About Nobody Know Always Got Juliet Yelling Mama Six Romeo Romeo And Juliet Them Imagine
Cinema is a world of imagination. Marjane Satrapi
World Cinema Imagination
You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want. Marjane Satrapi
Life You Live Too Way Extremely Individualistic Know Narcissistic Person Egocentric Want Really
I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere? Marjane Satrapi
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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. Marjane Satrapi
Life You Experience Hate People Problems Will Country One Country Solve Miracle Given More Surface Than Little Less Basement Chance
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. Marjane Satrapi
World Problems Duty Politician Solve Know How Questions Artist Ask
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. Marjane Satrapi
Love You Cinema Dictatorship Living Because Metaphor Iranian Use Things
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
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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. Marjane Satrapi
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If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me. Marjane Satrapi
Me People Paradise Hell Living Never Wrong Majority Does Were Mean Means Believed Right
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it. Marjane Satrapi
Best You Think Otherwise Recognise Only Make Narcissistic Artist The Only Thing Centre Then Create Whole Why Thing
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related. Marjane Satrapi
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine. Marjane Satrapi
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I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that. Marjane Satrapi
You Alien Fears Think About Directly Obsessions Like Make Always Personal Stories Story Personal Story Movies Your Things Zombies
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
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