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. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. Emir Kusturica Read Quote
I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Emir Kusturica Read Quote