With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.
Marjane SatrapiGraphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
Marjane SatrapiI like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
Marjane SatrapiIt's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
Marjane SatrapiIt 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.
Marjane Satrapi