Esra Saydam famous quotes

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.
-- Esra Saydam

#People #Important #Looks

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.
-- Esra Saydam

#Ideas #Being A Woman #Disadvantages

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.
-- Esra Saydam

#Stories #Film #Should

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.
-- Esra Saydam

#Issues #Empowering #Our Society

Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.
-- Esra Saydam

#Identity #Directors #Demographics

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.