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.

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

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

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

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.

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