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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.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Novelist
Painter
Screenwriter
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Censorship
Iran
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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 cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.
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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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I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.
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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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In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.
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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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Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
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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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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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If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
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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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I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
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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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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
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I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
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The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal they have different styles.
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