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I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
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Novelist
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Narcissistic
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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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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
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Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
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We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
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I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.
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George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.
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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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Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel I just say what I think.
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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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I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
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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.
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To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.
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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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You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
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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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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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I'm not a religious person at all.
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