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… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
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… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Most people only remember Maradona for the bad parts now. But he was a genius, someone who lifted us and himself up to the… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
