Majicman Notes

She then runs through a trick she has learnt to help make decisions:

 “I always have two questions in my life, frankly, for any situation: can it kill me? No. Can they put me in jail? No. 

So, if I am free and I’m not dead, OK, I can handle it. So even if I fail and I make a bad movie, no one really cares and everyone will soon forget… So, I try.”

I will give you my secret weapon — the third question. I always ask myself if I had only 48 hours to live, would this thing matter at all in my life? This is the meaning of wisdom, just to understand what is the priority in your life.

Marjane Satrapi in conversation with Leila Abboud, FT