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 films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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 school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around]… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable. — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
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… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
