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

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.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.

Well, are you?”“Am I what?”“Dating people?”Her lips quirked up at the corners. “Are you?”“Nope.”“Neither am I.”“Good. You’re mine until you leave.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.