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Emir Kusturica

Profession : Director

Birth : November 24, 1954

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

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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.

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I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

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I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.

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I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.

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I am my best enemy.

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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

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If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

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I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.

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My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.

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I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.

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When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

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I'm just a troublemaker.

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When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

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If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

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My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

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At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

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I am a man with a lot of passion.

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What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

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