"Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies.……" — 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 to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country."
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Emir Kusturica
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21 Quotes by Emir Kusturica
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My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world…
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My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250…
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I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
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I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
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In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is…
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Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
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I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
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I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade…
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I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
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Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe…
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You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in…
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I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death.…
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