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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.

From Emir Kusturica

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.

From Emir Kusturica

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

From Emir Kusturica

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

From Emir Kusturica

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

From Emir Kusturica

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.

From Emir Kusturica

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.

From 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.

From Emir Kusturica

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

From Emir Kusturica

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.

From Emir Kusturica

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