MURAT YILDIRIM IN THE ARABIC MAGAZINES MURAT YILDIRIM .....CINEMA EXTRA | Seite 12

Yildirim: In this respect I was extremely comfortable, and maybe it was because this was my first movie and maybe I had thought it would be more of a mound than a mole hill. It was not like we were taping a movie but the director knew very well what needed to be done. For me there were certain scenes in which I thought we were testing, but the testing actually ended up being part of the movie itself, this is because you are so involved in the production that you can misunderstand the director’s orders, then I would ask when will we be taping and be told we did already, thinking we had a month and the month was already completed. This is due to the fact that when the screenplay is written the amount of time for each scene is calculated and that is what determines the amount of time to tape the film. The director works within his time constraints to accomplish this and as a performer will kind have to go with the flow. When it comes to the crew I want to be exact we were together for exactly 21 days, under difficult circumstances really difficult. Now on this movie there is no such thing that everyone is going to like it, this is not possible. But it was viewed well, and reached a goal amount. The ones that did not like the movie I have actually discovered that they did not even watch the movie. But when you consider the circumstances & conditions we work with such as not having millions in a monetary budget, ridiculous type of endorsements and working under these conditions without misrepresentation of it being a religious type movie, we did not have any of the above. We worked with our own budget and capacity and produced under very difficult conditions, and this was never discussed this is the first time here that these things are being discussed. There were many times when we worked till the early morning hours, and I am not saying that we are the only ones, there are others who have to work under these hard conditions as well. But serial from the set movers, to the directors and producers everyone worked hard in this production of this movie.