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

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.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

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

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

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