Marjane Satrapi, the brains and heart behind Persepolis, the animated film based on her autobiographical comics about growing up in the wake of the 1979 Iranian rvolution, talks to Nancy Ramsey about turning her life into art, and about not knowing just how her home nation's government might like to reward her for it. "First of all, I'm not revealing stuff that nobody knows, there have been hundreds of documentaries on this. I'm against all fanatics -- Muslim, Jewish, Christian, secular, Communist fanatics. This is about repression, the idea of, 'If you don't think like me, you are my enemy and so I have to kill you.' This idea doesn't belong to a special place."
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