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. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I’m not somebody who is against America. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called ‘categorical imperative.’ Emir Kusturica Read Quote
I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
