All Emir Kusturica Quotes
- 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… Bases
- My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox… Always Described
- I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me. Hate
- I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. Been
- In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things… Bad
- Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. Believe
- I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. Bosnia
- 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… Airport
- I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight. Bars
- Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies. Center
- You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. Each
- 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… Clear
- 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… Bosnian
- 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. Build
- 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:… Any
- I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Cut
- 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… Analyze
- 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… Advantage
- 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
- 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… Awful