Film Quotes by Jasmila Zbanic

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

— Jasmila Zbanic

If you love your film, you have to fight for it.

— Jasmila Zbanic

I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it…

— Jasmila Zbanic

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.

— Jasmila Zbanic

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

— Jasmila Zbanic

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while…

— Jasmila Zbanic

The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with…

— Jasmila Zbanic

When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Always, for me, when I am dealing with subjects related to my country that are very emotional, I have to find the right tone…

— Jasmila Zbanic

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

— Jasmila Zbanic

In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.

— Jasmila Zbanic

Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.

— Jasmila Zbanic

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying…

— Jasmila Zbanic