30 Quotes by Jasmila Zbanic

I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.

In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with other major religions and was much softer and more liberal.

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.