Serbian - Director | November 24, 1954 -
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
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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.
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I am my best enemy.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.
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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.
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I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.
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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.
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I'm just a troublemaker.
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If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.
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