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… — 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
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… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
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… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
