Marjane Satrapi Quotes

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

We have darkness as human beings.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.