I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

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

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

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