Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Accepted the Best Director award in 2008 Cannes Film Festival by saying, "I dedicate this award to my lonely and beautiful country, which I passionately love.".

[on ambiguity] The literature always has an advantage over cinema. Because, you know, everybody knows that, that literature also uses the imagination of the reader. We can make the same thing to a certain amount by with ambiguity in cinema. So you can take the imagination of the audience into account and without using it and making the audience active you cannot go deep enough in cinema, I believe.