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

" My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart? "

" 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'm just a troublemaker. "

" What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse. "

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

" When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac. "

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

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

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

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

" You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written. "

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

" I am my best enemy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "