49 Quotes by 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 citizens.

I am a man with a lot of passion.

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

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

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

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

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

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