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 KusturicaJust because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
Emir KusturicaI've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
Emir KusturicaThe advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.
Emir Kusturica