I consider writing, absolutely, the deepest artistic form: the source from which almost all the other arts are born, film, theatre, books, songs, poems, and much more besides. And not only that. Since the earliest beginnings, a large part of human knowledge has been preserved, ordered, and handed down through multiple forms of writing. It is a silent but decisive presence: it has always accompanied us, it defines us, it guides us.

And yet we often do not notice it. But if we stop and truly reflect, we discover that our most beautiful and intense moments, as well as the most painful ones, are profoundly linked to artistic forms. Music and songs, for example, intertwine with memories and become keys that reopen rooms of our life. A film seen at the right moment can illuminate us and, unexpectedly, offer us solutions to our problems. A book can change us forever. A poem can make the heart vibrate and touch the deepest parts of our essence.

And all of this can exist only thanks to the power of writing.

Without forgetting the great artists of the past, who through writing, directly or through their works, were able to ignite inner and collective revolutions, thus helping to improve the human condition. Because the one who writes is not only someone who tells: he is someone who leaves a mark. And the writer’s freedom is immense: to write and invent without limits is an extraordinarily exciting experience, an act of expansion, of courage, of vision.

In reality, the writer is an inventor, a creator. He can generate any story and any character, giving them a life, a face, a past, a present, a future. A “writer creator” is aware of this, and precisely for this reason he also understands another essential truth: creation needs coherence. Even the freest imagination must seek a meaning, a balance, an inner structure that makes what is born credible. This is also true when building highly fantastic and dreamlike stories: even the dream, to be powerful, must have its own logic.

A screenplay is like a mosaic: made up of thousands, of millions of small pieces—fruits of research, study, listening, and observation, which, put together with intelligence, good sense, and taste, create a harmony. They create union. And then the mosaic manifests itself, finally revealing its image.

And the screenplay is like a mosaic.

Raman Turhan