“The next film I’m working on will be very different from the last two. It’s called Soul Kitchen. Comedy is the hardest. I have been working for five years on that damn screenplay. I think it’s the most difficult film I ever worked on. You can make people cry. That’s so easy. You can make people cry in Japan or Great Britain, but humor is so much more difficult.”
And what of Turkey, the land to which his characters keep returning, often to a grim fate?
“Turkey is a unique country with unique issues. It’s a very strange country. I think you can look for good cinema coming from here. We have a lot of problems and so a lot of stories to tell.”
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