Pamuk, Orhan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Bevölkert von Kämpfern und Träumern - Die Türkei und ihre Literatur

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mandarin

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Gizli yüz

  1991, role: writer

Famous quotes by Orhan Pamuk:

"I think perhaps it is a generational thing,"

"he said. ''Therefore, I do."

"he complains. ''Otherwise it's offensive to discuss poverty and suicide; they talk about these things as if they happen in a land beyond the civilized world."

"I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, 'Where is this melancholy city you talk about? My Istanbul is a sunny place."

"Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins."

"There is no doubt that it will raise questions about the wisdom of Turkey's EU membership bid. How can it possibly claim to be a European country if it has such laws on the books, and if public prosecutors can bring such cases?"

"Thirty-thousand Kurds were killed here, 1 million Armenians as well. And almost no one talks about it, ... Therefore, I do."

"There is nothing that constitutes a crime in this interview."

"Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,"

"Thirty thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,"

"Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe."

"The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup."

"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented."

"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."

"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."

"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."

"I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west."

"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."