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

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

Personal power depends on the power of imagination

Gender Quotes are social disease.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.