Marjane Satrapi

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

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.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

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

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.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.