Quote

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.

Marjane Satrapi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Novelist
Painter
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Never
Four
Like
Times
Tell
Moviemaker
Three
Cinema
Film
Films
Become
Watches
Truth
Watch
Wanted
Week

More quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Image
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
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.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I don't think of myself as a rebel I just say what I think.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
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.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I'm not a religious person at all.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
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.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
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.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
Marjane Satrapi
Image
I almost don't know how to write an email.
Marjane Satrapi