Latest Marjane Satrapi Quotes from Interviews

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• Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Christian, Differences, Evil

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Believe, People, Evil

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Real, Ties

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Two, Voice, Generosity

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I almost don't know how to write an email.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Email, Know How

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Unity, Narrative, Might

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Character, Hands, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Black And White, Drawing, Consistency

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Land, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Character, Way, Etc

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Ideas, Design, Plot

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Kids, Night, Giving

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cat, Independent, Wells

  "Working with diva cats & Ryan Reynolds on ‘The Voices’: Director Marjane Satrapi tells all". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. February 6, 2015.

• 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.

• A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cat, Wells, Remains

  "Working with diva cats & Ryan Reynolds on ‘The Voices’: Director Marjane Satrapi tells all". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. February 6, 2015.

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

  Marjane Satrapi

  Civilization, West, Hunger

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, House, Heaven

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

• But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Realize Things, People, News

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.

  Marjane Satrapi

  War, Issues, Racism

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

• Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Differences, Filters, Might

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

• Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Kids, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

• Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Stories, Problem

  Source: www.believermag.com

• You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Culture, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Gun, Cinema, Stories

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.