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" 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. "
Emir Kusturica
Think
People
Place
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" 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. "
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" Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. "
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" 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. "
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" That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible. "
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" You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. "
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" 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. "
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City
" If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level. "
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" I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight. "
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Younger
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" Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. "
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Country
Identity
Integrity
" I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me. "
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Practice
People
" What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. "
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Place
History
" Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies. "
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You
Job
" My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention. "
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Always
Father
" 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. "
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Paris
Now
" 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. "
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Death
Thinking
" My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees. "
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Russia
Him
Back
" I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America. "
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I Am
America
Against
" I am my best enemy. "
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I Am
Enemy
Best
" I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "
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Wizard
Wonderful
Will
" 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. "
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Man
Great
I Am
" At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war. "
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You
Rational
Moment
" 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. "
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Someone
Remember
People
" 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.' "
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Philosophy
" 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. "
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Succeed
Together
Chance
" I'm just a troublemaker. "
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Troublemaker
Just
" When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express. "
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Painting
Looking
" 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. "
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Strong
Feeling
" What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse. "
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Angel
Everything
" I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. "
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Presence
Famous
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" 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. "
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