Persepolis Quotes:

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

- Marjane Satrapi

topic: Hurt, Stupid, Bitterness, Illustrators, Persepolis

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Kings, Bravery, Triumph, Persepolis

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

topic: Past, Men, Vanity, Persepolis

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.

- Marjane Satrapi

topic: Sorry, Laughing, Way, Persepolis

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Character, Hands, Drawing, Persepolis

The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Black And White, Drawing, Consistency, Persepolis, Cohesion

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."

- Marjane Satrapi

source: "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

topic: Country, Daughter, Stupid, Stupid Movie, Persepolis

I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Ideas, Design, Plot, Persepolis, Production Design

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.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Thinking, Land, People, Persepolis