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.

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.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

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

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.