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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

Topics: Any Art Awful Central Century Collapsed Great Great Place History Hollywood Human Idealism Like Machinery Most Now Place Poison Preserved Pure The History Of Then World You 20Th Century

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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

Topics: Airport Am Cities Finished Four Just Me New New York Now Paris Spent Ten While Years York I Am

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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

Topics: Build Choose Citizens City Democracy Fed Fed Up Mayors People Up Vote Wanted Where Will

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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

Topics: Each Except Know Life Lost Segment Serbia Somehow Still Think You I Think

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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

Topics: After Analyze Apart Chance Cinema Could Each Every Fall First Hand Like Looks Lose Minutes More Movie Notice Other Putting Spontaneous Stories Story Succeed Them Then Thread Together Within You 15 Minutes

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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

Topics: About Big Big Problem Biggest Certain Could Devoted Difficult Films Hit How Instinct Keep Maintain Make Making Making Movies Maybe Most Movies Next Part Problem Them Then World You

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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

Topics: Always Because Center Dangerous Job Making Making Movies Movies Stands Universe Who You

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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

Topics: After Awful Basketball Beautiful Became Country Great His Identify Kind Leading More Movies Needed Novels People Problem Strongly Superpower Tricky Way Yugoslavia

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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

Topics: Am Brothers Brought Came Christian Eastern Family Grandparents Illustration Islam Lived Living Mixing Orthodox Other Poor Survive Three To Survive Took Turks Two Very Were I Am

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I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

~Emir Kusturica

Topics: Bars Big Explode Fight Fighter Ready Younger

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Biography

Nationality: Serbian

Type: Director

Born: November 24th, 1954

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