Fatih Quotes

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out. ~ Fatih Akin

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time. ~ Fatih Akin

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. ~ Fatih Akin

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. ~ Fatih Birol

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality. ~ Fatih Akin

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God's goodness. ~ K. Howard Joslin

Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that. ~ Fatih Akin

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting. ~ Fatih Birol

We are not lacking in ovservation by which the relation of language to its variable usage can be determined rather precisely. Insight into this relation and the art of applying it belongs to the spirit of the law and the secrete of governing. It is just this relation which makes classical writers. The trouble caused by confounding languages and the blind fatih in certain signs and formulas are at times coup d'état which have them in the kingdong of truth than the most powerful, freshly exhumed word-radical or the unending geealogy of a concept; coup d'état which would never enter the head of a scholarly blatherer and an eloquent journeyman, not even in his most propitious dreams. ~ Johann Georg Hamann

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

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters. ~ Fatih Akin

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

If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand. ~ Fatih Birol

Faith is believe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. ~ Fatih Birol

There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out. ~ Fatih Birol