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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.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
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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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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.
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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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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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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
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The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows - I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.
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You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
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Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel I just say what I think.
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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated everything for me is related.
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One can forgive but one should never forget.
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The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
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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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I'm not a religious person at all.
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Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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