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In Serbia a lot of people hat...

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 and very bad things.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

The advantage of the gypsy la...

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 the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

My father was always saying w...

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

I will always fight for peace...

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

I am very impulsive and very ...

I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

The most difficult part of ma...

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 instinct that I have about films.

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I am not trying to say I'm a ...

I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

That is a Medieval way of dra...

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

My purpose is to make a movie...

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 only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

Yugoslavia was a kind of supe...

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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My father was an atheist and ...

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 before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

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I never wanted an independent...

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

You know, in each segment of ...

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 29 quotes

When I was a student looking ...

When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

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I am finished with cities. I ...

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 now they are just airports.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

Just because I believe in the...

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

Every movie that I do, if you...

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 lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

What would happen if an angel...

What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

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What you have now is a Hollyw...

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: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

I think the city is the stron...

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

Emir Kusturica 29 quotes

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