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I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.
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Marjane Satrapi

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A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
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Marjane Satrapi

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To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.
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Marjane Satrapi

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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!'
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Marjane Satrapi

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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.
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Marjane Satrapi

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Cinema is a world of imagination.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
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Marjane Satrapi

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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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Marjane Satrapi

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The music that I hate the most is R&B.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?
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Marjane Satrapi

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My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.
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Marjane Satrapi

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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.
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Marjane Satrapi

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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.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I'm not a religious person at all.
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Dervla Kirwan

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As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
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Marjane Satrapi

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In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.
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Marjane Satrapi

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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.
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Marjane Satrapi

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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
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Marjane Satrapi

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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.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
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Marjane Satrapi

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The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.
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Marjane Satrapi

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You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.
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Marjane Satrapi

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The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
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Marjane Satrapi

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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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Marjane Satrapi

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Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
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Marjane Satrapi

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The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Quote by - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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I like romanticizing romance.
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Ansel Elgort

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"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."

Quote by - Altering Kurt

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The art of survival is a story that never ends.

Quote by - Christian Bale

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“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” 
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Emily Dickinson

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"There is no art without intention."

Quote by - Duke Ellington

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