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" 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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" 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.' "

Emir Kusturica

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You

Philosophy

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Emir Kusturica

Paris

Now

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I am my best enemy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films. "

" 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. "

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

Emir Kusturica

Lot

Passion

" 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 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. "

Emir Kusturica

Strong

Feeling

" I'm just a troublemaker. "

Emir Kusturica

Troublemaker

Just

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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