What is the difference between someone who has resolved their identity issues and someone who has not?
– I don’t believe that there is anyone who has resolved all his/her identity issues. Although, one older Turkish-American gentleman I met in New York, told me that he wasn’t interested in my film because he had resolved his identity issues. God bless him, we should all be taking lessons from this gentleman! It is a life long process because at every step of the way, we have different identities. For example, as a young female teenager, one has the virgin identity, as a woman, the mother identity, as an older woman, the crone identity. And these are just the basic female archetypes. On top of all this, we also have cultural identities. The people who honestly deal with these issues are more open, more tolerant and less fearful. The ones that haven’t dealt with these issues are closed off and full of fear. I see this in LA and in Istanbul. A very funny observation – in Istanbul, people who have never had peace and acceptance of themselves, boast a lot. Boasting is a very Middle-Eastern c
