I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

- Fatih Ak?N

The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort o…

- Fatih Ak?N

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

- Fatih Ak?N

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh…

- Fatih Ak?N

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much b…

- Fatih Ak?N

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

- Fatih Ak?N

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

- Fatih Ak?N

Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a …

- Fatih Ak?N

I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go sho…

- Fatih Ak?N