Emir Kusturica Quotes

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?

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.

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don`t have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.

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. Why don`t I see a Frank Capra today? Because people aren`t like this anymore? People haven`t changed that much in 60 years.

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.

Miloshevich`s main mistake was that he thought the Serbs numbered 250 million and that he didn`t have two Atom bombs in his pocket.

Everything must be sold! Everything must be for sale! Everyone must buy! Everyone must have a Jeep!

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, 10 in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. Cities are humiliating places to live, particularly in this part of the world.

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.