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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: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a Third-World story.
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Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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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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'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
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Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
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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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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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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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I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
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I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
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One can forgive but one should never forget.
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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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But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
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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 don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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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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