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

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.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

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

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

The 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.

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.