Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.