among the biggest film advertising agencies in Los Angeles. But he still says his greatest reward “is when my wife hugs me and I see happiness in my mother’s eyes.”

You were a successful designer in Turkey as well. What made you decide to give up everything and go to America?

Success stories have a format that the American cinema in particular loves and that people never tire of watching, one that gives the masses the feeling that “If he did it, I can do it, too.” But in real life it’s a little different. This is a long race, a life struggle involving many difficulties, dissapointments, internal and external conflicts. You never stop fighting and you must never give up. I started by taking that first step, one that most people would like to take but somehow never get around to. In the blink of an eye, I threw up all the material and psychological background I had in my own country, all the social and individual hurdles I had climbed, and started running in a different lane.