Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way….

It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film s….

If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many fil….

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable..

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't g….

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country..

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way..

When you make a film, you come to say something..

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, ….

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in..

Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The f….

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her bec….