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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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