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Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی‎) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author.

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Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Arrived, Conclusion, Educate, Usual

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.

Fighting, Joker, People, Scarier, Trying

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

100, Like, Long, Marathon, Meter, Time

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

Country, Good, News Stories, Stories, Thing, Thinking

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.

Adults, Children, Happy, Lots, Make Happy

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

Art, Believe, Everything, Generations, Influenced, Ring

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.

Apparently, Expression, Law, Patriotism, True, Usa

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

Green, Lee, Three, Took, Years

You are putting yourself in serious danger. . . ' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

Confront, Nihilist, Parent, Proud, Sacrifice, Thinking

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

Christian, Clash, Culture, Doe, East, Muslim

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.

Choose, Comic, Draw, Form, Write, Writing

I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which Sally Field plays an American who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in Iran]; I heard so many things like that. I did not make Persepolis for Iranians. It was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "Let me give you another point of view. "

Country, Daughter, Estranged, Let, Stupid, Things

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Chance, Give, Giving, People

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Laugh, Laughing, Sorry, Supportable, Unbearable, Way

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Directly, Personal, Stories, Thinking, Zombie, Zombies

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.

Voice, Generations, Way, Became, Recognize

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.

Real, Names, People, World, Life, Fascism

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.

Budget, Business, Dollars, Example, Good Movie, Small

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

Animation, Different, Federico, Narrative, Unity, Vulgar

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time. . . I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

Facts, Graphic, Intelligent, Make, Say, Silly

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