I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.