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I am my best enemy.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Enemy
Best I Am Am
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I'm just a troublemaker.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Troublemaker
Just
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I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Anti-american
Both Sides
Sides
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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Humanity
Social
Memory
Organ
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I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Clean
Impulsive
Stupid
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If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Film
Superficial
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My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Much Attention
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I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Bosnia
Independent
Yugoslavia
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I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Bars
Explode
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I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Putin
Respects
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I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Cut
Wizard
Oz
Wizard Of Oz
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At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Rational
Yugoslavia
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When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Invest
Maniac
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Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Identity
Nationalist
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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 / Filmmaker
Movie
Actors
End Of The Tunnel
Light
Shooting
Tunnels
In The End
Tunnel
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I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Effect
Famous People
Presence
Tremble
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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 / Filmmaker
Serbia
Segment
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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 / Filmmaker
Center
Making Movies
Stands
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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 / Filmmaker
Citizens
Fed Up
Mayors
Vote
Fed
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What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
American President
Collapse
Appeared
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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 / Filmmaker
Cities
Ten
I Am Me New
Airport
Me I Am New
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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Organised
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Most people only remember Maradona for the bad parts now. But he was a genius, someone who lifted us and himself up to the level of the gods.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Genius
Remember
Himself
Lifted
Parts
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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 / Filmmaker
Metaphysical
Morality
Categorical
Imperative
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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 / Filmmaker
Drawing
Medieval
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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 / Filmmaker
Bad Things
Bipolar
Good Things
Serbia
Western
Western World
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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 / Filmmaker
Identity
Offspring
Related
Life Death Thinking
Reached
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My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Medal
Putin
Russia
Hugely
Received
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When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Dutch
Italian
Leonardo
Fits
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I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Balkans
Function
Turns
War Peace Always
Bastards
War Peace Fight
Drives
Wall Street
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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 / Filmmaker
Absurd
Nationality
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Attaching
Entities
Me Country New
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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 / Filmmaker
Devoted
Instinct
Big Problem
Maintain
Making Movies
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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 / Filmmaker
Heat
Modernity
Rational
Warm
Basis
Beat
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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 / Filmmaker
Basketball
Superpower
Tricky
Yugoslavia
Identify
Leading
Novels
Strongly
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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 / Filmmaker
Christian
Converting
Eastern
Islam
Mixing
Orthodox
Poor
Three
Bosnian
Brothers
Came
Survive
To Survive
Took
Turks
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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 / Filmmaker
Century
Hollywood
Idealism
Machinery
Poison
Pure
Art History Great
Central
Collapsed
History Art Great
Great Place
Preserved
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I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Cinema
Great Guy
Locks
Serbia
War Great Man
Attack
Cellar
Shown
Underground
Uses
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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.
Emir Kusturica / Filmmaker
Advantage
Following
Gypsy
Just One
Melody
Propose
Meaning Of
They Say
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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 / Filmmaker
Cinema
Spontaneous
Succeed
Thread
Analyze
Apart
Notice
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