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I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

- Marjane Satrapi
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I'm not a religious person at all.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

All big changes of the world come from words.

It 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.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

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I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.