Emir Kusturica Quotes

Emir Kusturica — Serbian Director born on November 24, 1954,

Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He has twice won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, as well as being named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Emir Kusturica Quotes

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