Question from the audience: Why did you know work in your chosen profession?
Murat Yildirim:
When I was going to Istanbul, I actually was going for the sake of being in Istanbul, because the other options available to me to were for Medical Faculties, Mechanical Engineering, and other types of Engineering and other choices some of which had nothing to do with each other. Of course in Turkey an 18 year old young man still does not know what he wants, and what I really wanted at the time was to be in Istanbul with my friends, and with my mothers final persuasions I wrote in that I wanted the medical field on the forms, however because of the response to 1 of the questions I ended up in Mechanical Engineering, and if I had answered differently I might have been put into a different field. Joking he says that for the first 4 years he never attended Mechanical Engineering, but later I starting attending for theater, I was also interested in music, and in the two years I enjoyed it and it brought me too the stage which was very enjoyable. I then realized that this is what was going to bring me the most joy. So if a person at 18 and afterwards there is a difference in what that person wants then there might be a problem, its very important to know what you want to do. This is something that we discuss with my siblings a lot. When I ask during the taking of the entry test for University the response is not very clear....which to me now seems strange, but with me until I was introduced to theater I felt that I had no goals/desires as well....once I was introduced to theater I thought that I would only be involved in theater, I considered television, serials. After starting in theater some admirers that watched me perform and invited me to different venues and because it was things that I had considered I went to these venues and performed.And to be frankly honest I enjoyed being in front of the camera. But actual desires were theater and cinema, yes are we performing in serials the answer is yes, and we do our best and this is also a form of training however, our real desire in cinema. But if you ask me if I ever considered working as a Mechanical Engineer I would say no I have never thought of doing this. This is because if though I was good in mathematics, and my family really wanted me to be an Engineer or a Doctor, and I assume that this is the case for 50% of the people here, this seems to be a problem with most students here in Turkey