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…

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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…

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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…

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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…

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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, …

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

- Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

- Deniz Gamze Erguven