Lievia

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“During my interview at the park I was mesmerized by the routines of strangers. I wanted to ask questions that borrowed deeper into the fabric of a single day. As I continue filming I was also beginning to articulate a feeling I had had dormant for a long time . Everyone It seemed to me has something truly weird about them something unique and bizarre. This uniqueness was most apparent in everyday act, in the banal rather than the extraordinary : the way to pick clothes for the day, the things they ate, how they spent a free hour. This was their compass. It seemed to me, more so than any more abstraction”.”
― Ayşegül Savaş, The Anthropologists

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“We never allowed our parents their unhappiness I said and we never allowed them their individual individuality before they were shackled to parenthood”.”
― Aysegül Savas, The Anthropologists