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All Quotes by author - Emir Kusturica

" At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war. "

" Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema. "

" Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel. "

" I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. "

" I am a man with a lot of passion. "

" I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. "

" I am my best enemy. "

" I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia. "

" I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America. "

" I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean. "

" If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level. "

" If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.' "

" I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts. "

" I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens. "

" I'm just a troublemaker. "

" I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides. "

" I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. "

" In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. "

" I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me. "

" I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities. "

" I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity. "

" I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. "

" I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity. "

" I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight. "

" I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function. "

" I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "

" Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. "

" Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies. "

" Most people only remember Maradona for the bad parts now. But he was a genius, someone who lifted us and himself up to the level of the gods. "

" My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention. "

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