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

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