49 Quotes by Emir Kusturica

Ипак је руља највише уживала у пастирском року Горана Бреговића. Он је успио да преведе музику „Лед Цепелина” на пастирски језик.

Kad ti neko blizak umre, vrijeme ne teče uobičajenim tokovima. I ti, u trenutku kada čuješ takvu vijest, malo umreš. Slabije čuješ, tiše govoriš, postaneš ona ulična svetiljka za koju nisi siguran kako da uopšte daje ikakvo svjetlo. Onda putujući do mjesta gde je sahrana upokojenog, kada stigneš tamo gdje treba, ti ponovo, od želje da ne budeš ni malo mrtav, potpuno oživiš.

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

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.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

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.

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.

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