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.

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 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.

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

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