And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Every present anger derives from past weakness.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
My next film is always shaped by the last one. . . by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.