Quotes By Emir Kusturica

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.