"I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to."

“The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.”

“To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.”

“I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

“If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.”

Source : Anh Do (2011). “The Happiest Refugee: The Extraordinary True Story of a Boy's Journey from Starvation at Sea to Becoming One of Australia's Best-loved Comedians”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

“It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“The language of truth is simple.”

“Pause and remember - You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!”

“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.”