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You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
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A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
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I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.
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Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema it's not literature it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.
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I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. 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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You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
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We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
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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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I almost don't know how to write an email.
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If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
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The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
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Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
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People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.
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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
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