Fatih Akin Quotes

#1. Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron

#2. How come people don't do things like that nowadays? You grope around in the back of a sedan in high school and you think you're in love. Nobody gets swept off their feet anymore.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Life was an uncertain thing.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Dean Koontz

#5. As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

Fatih Akin

#6. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#7. Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

Fatih Akin

#8. When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Fatih Akin

#9. 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 Akin

#10. 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 shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

Fatih Akin

#11. I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Thucydides

#12. When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine Di Giovanni

#13. I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

Fatih Akin

#14. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Pema Chodron

#15. Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. 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 of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.

Fatih Akin

#17. 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 third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.

Fatih Akin

#18. 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 better than what you have worked out.

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#19. How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#20. People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

John Ashcroft

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

Fatih Akin

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

Fatih Akin

#23. 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 and cry in the same hour.

Fatih Akin

#24. Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle

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

Fatih Akin