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" 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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" 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? "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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" 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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" I am my best enemy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "