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

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 movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

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

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.

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