The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.

Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. "What's that on your face?"The smile vanished. "What?""Never mind, " she said, laughing. "It's gone.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.