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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.