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
writing thinking interesting
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.
kids thinking vacation
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.
childhood tears normal
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.
religious thinking years
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.
book cinema saws
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
realize-things people news
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.
thinking rebel
I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
sarcasm bad-mood irony
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
pigs iran iraq
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
writing drawing firsts
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
extremist
In every religion, you find the same extremists.
love-is thinking people
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
christian culture west
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
war issues racism
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.