Stopped Rational Quotes by Emir Kusturica

I am a man with a lot of passion.

— Emir Kusturica

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

— Emir Kusturica

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

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

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

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

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

— Emir Kusturica

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

— Emir Kusturica

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

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

— Emir Kusturica

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

— Emir Kusturica

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

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

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

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