Emir Kusturica Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: serbian
  • Birth: November 24, 1954

Topics

FamilyI AmSurviveChristianLiving

I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

Joanne Harris

RespectPeopleSocietyEnvironment

I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.

Jesse Kellerman

ParentsWritingThinkTalkEveryone

I don't like to be rushed. I plan my outfits for the week in advance. I find the appropriate outfit for each occasion, try it on, make sure it is in good condition and have it all ready with shoes, handbag and accessories laid out in my dressing room. Fashion is such a huge part of my career, I have to think ahead.

Jerry Hall

GoodShoesFashionThinkPlanWeek

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

WelcomeLongYouAnythingElse

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

QuietGoMindsClockOwnFortune

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

Jeff Buckley

PeopleMeGenerationBetterWant

I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.

Sia

ThinkReasonDegreeSuccessfulBeing

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

Simon Hoggart

PeopleWorldPictureChoiceEmbrace

Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.

Roshni Nadar

FatherPeopleMeUpCourseGuiding

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Miguel Ferrer

WorldPlaceWyomingWholeHole

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

Joss Whedon

DancePeopleFlySongThinkFeel

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

Jason Biggs

ActingNeverWellThanHappier

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