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.

— Marjane Satrapi

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

— Marjane Satrapi

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third worlder, they had always a home!

— Marjane Satrapi

Cinema is a world of imagination.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Marjane Satrapi

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Marjane Satrapi

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

— Marjane Satrapi

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.

— Marjane Satrapi

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.

— Marjane Satrapi