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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

If you're lost and aloneOr you're sinking like a stoneCarry on...May your past be the soundOf your feet upon the groundCarry on

Some people follow. Some people lead. Some kick back and smoke some weed… and breathe.

Bravery comes one day at a time.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.