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

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

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.

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

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

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