The 21+ Emir Kusturica Quotes

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.

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.

I've Been Around Some Very Famous People, But No One Has The Effect Maradona Has; People Tremble In His Presence.

You Know, In Each Segment Of Ex-yugoslavia, Multi-ethnic Life Is Lost, Except I Think We Somehow Still Have This In Serbia.

I Was A Big Fighter When I Was Younger. In Bars I Was Ready To Explode And Fight.

I Will Not Cut My Film Because, Because, Because, Because Of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

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?

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.

I Am A Living Illustration Of Bosnian Mixing And Converting. My Grandparents Lived In Eastern Herzegovina. Very Poor. The Turks Came And Brought Islam. There Were Three Brothers In The Family. One Was Orthodox Christian. The Other Two Took Islam To Survive.

I've Reached The 50th Year Of My Life, And Now Every Question Related With Life Also Includes Thinking About Death. When I Leave, I Want To Leave To My Offspring A Clear Idea About Identity.

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.

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.