Deniz Gamze Erguven Quotes

#1. 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 because the family says no.

Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

Deniz Gamze Erguven

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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, and it started off really early.

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#6. 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 under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.

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

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

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#9. 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 get out of that room.

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#10. 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 fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.

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