Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapiis an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1969
CityRasht, Iran
psychology want littles
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.
past two today
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
writing drawing talking
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
people culture stories
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.
believe evil people
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.
two voice generosity
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.
writing email knows
I almost don't know how to write an email.
character hands drawing
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.
unity narrative might
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.
black-and-white drawing consistency
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.
unbearable life-is dies
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.
thinking land people
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.
years green three
I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
iran identity west
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.