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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
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Film Director
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Novelist
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