Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
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.
When you make a film, you come to say something.
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] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.
Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
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 so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet. . . and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some. . . some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U. S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!