Marjane Satrapi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.”

“Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.”

“I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.”

“Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.”

“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.”

“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!'”

“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.”

“It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.”

“I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.”

“All big changes of the world come from words.”