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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.
Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.
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I almost don't know how to write an 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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We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
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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 chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.
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My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me' this is something to condemn.
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If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
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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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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
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America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
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Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.
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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
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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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Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol making love, they talk about Aids you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
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