Marjane Satrapi Quotes
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
Quotes to Explore
-
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
-
I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
-
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
-
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
-
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
-
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
-
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
-
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
-
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
-
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
-
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
-
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
-
No person is just one particular emotion.
-
Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
-
The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
-
Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
-
I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.
-
People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
-
Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.
-
I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
-
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
