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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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