30 Quotes by Jasmila Zbanic

I will be very calm because I am dreaming this so I will wake up in five minutes in Sarajevo. I'm dreaming that I'm here on this stage and dreaming that I'm here in Berlin.

I'm dreaming that I'm here on this stage and dreaming that I'm here in Berlin.

I hope that this will change your viewing on Bosnia.

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.