Each country is strong on some tradition.

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

When I was really young, I got moonstruck by Moonstruck.

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

If we can trust each other and leave everything-all our hearts-out on the field, I think we're going to have something to come home to and cheer about.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.