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

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

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

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?

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

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

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.