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
