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 drawing talking
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
writing email knows
I almost don't know how to write an email.
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.
writing drawing firsts
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
writing drawing life-and-death
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
writing actors want
Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.
writing speech program
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
writing comic form
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
writing email computer
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
mean writing thinking
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
writing giving sense-of-humor
Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.
writing reality drawing
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.
life
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.
art became cartooning cinema comics created deal major people quickly time
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.