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.

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

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?

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.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

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