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

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

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.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

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.

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

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.

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.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

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

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.