Kusturica Quotes

#1. I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Emir Kusturica

#2. 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?

Emir Kusturica

#3. I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Emir Kusturica

#4. My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

Emir Kusturica

#5. If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

#6. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#7. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#8. Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world.

Bryant McGill

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

Emir Kusturica

#10. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#11. You can pull the toy away from the cat's reach a few times but always make sure that you let it win eventually. This helps build confidence.

Ace McCloud

#12. We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution.

Margaret Mead

#13. How long would it take for her sadness to ease? How long must she wait to forget a man who would've been her ideal, were he not who he was? The answer: too long. But wait she must.

Miranda Davis

#14. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#15. What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica

#16. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#17. I wish there was some way to explain how very uninterested I was in a normal human life.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#19. Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.

John Andreas Widtsoe

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

Emir Kusturica

#21. Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#22. I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

Emir Kusturica

#23. The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

Sherry Turkle

#24. Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Warren Farrell

#25. 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.

Emir Kusturica

#26. If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

Nick Nolte

#27. That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

Emir Kusturica

#28. It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

Robert Greene

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

Emir Kusturica

#30. In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

Emir Kusturica

#31. So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Daniel Greenberg

#32. 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.

Emir Kusturica

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

Emir Kusturica

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

Emir Kusturica