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Top 15 Emir Kusturica Quotes (2025 Update)

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.”

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

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.”

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

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn’t make a xenophobe or a nationalist.”

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

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Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.”

7. “You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

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

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Emir Kusturica Quote: “Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.”

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

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.”

12. “In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.”

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Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “I’ve been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.”

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

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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?”

17. “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?”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Quote: “I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.”

19. “I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.”

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