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.
Marjane SatrapiI 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.
Marjane SatrapiI was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.
Marjane SatrapiAs a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
Marjane SatrapiI'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.
Marjane Satrapi