Home / Authors / Emir Kusturica Books

Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica Books

Filmmaker

Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor known for his distinctive style and profound exploration of social and political issues. Born on November 24, 1954, Kusturica's films have gained widespread acclaim internationally, with works like 'Underground' and 'Life is a Miracle' standing out as his masterpieces.

Smrt je neprovjerena glasina

A source page for quotes linked to Emir Kusturica.

0 quotes

Sto jada

A source page for quotes linked to Emir Kusturica.

0 quotes

Related Quotes

“Ипак је руља највише уживала у пастирском року Горана Бреговића. Он је успио да преведе музику „Лед Цепелина” на пастирски језик.”

Humor Music Rock Yugoslavia

Book:Smrt je neprovjerena glasina

Source: Smrt je neprovjerena glasina

“Το νοσταλγικό τραγούδι μετατράπηκε σιγά σιγά σ΄ έναν ξέφρενο χορό που απλωνόταν μέχρι εκεί που δεν έφτανε το βλέμμα, ενώνοντας όλους τους δρόμους, όλα τα σπίτια του χωριού. Η ζεστή γη της Ερζεγοβίνης μετέδιδε ένα παράξενο ρεύμα στα πόδια των χορευτών, το αίμα άρδευε την αλυσίδα που συνέθεταν τα καυτά χέρια δεκάδων ανθρώπων οι οποίοι είχαν μεταμορφωθεί σε ένα μοναδικό ον που ζεσταίνονταν από το ίδιο αίμα, που δονούνταν από τον ίδιο ρυθμό". - Το σφιχταγκάλιασμα του ερπετού”

Book:Sto jada

Source: Sto jada

“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.”

Want Ends Light Actors Shooting Movie Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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?”

World Giving Heart Purpose Cutting Beats Bases Warm Rational Heat Modernity

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

Years Father Atheist Orthodox Deep Down

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

People May Ideas Reason Hate Practice Hate Me

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

People Humor Inspiration Effects Insight Very Famous Maradona

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

People World Want Hate Understanding Good Things Western Very Good Bad Things Hate Me Bipolar Western World Serbia

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Believe Country I Believe Identity Integrity I Believe In

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Country Wanted Independent Bosnia Yugoslavia

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

Years Cities Four New York Ten Finished Paris Four Years Airports Belgrade

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Bigs Fighting Ready Bars Fighter

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Jobs Universe Dangerous Center Of The Universe Dangerous Jobs

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Thinking Knows Stills Life Is Lost Exes Serbia Yugoslavia

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

Thinking Want Years Ideas Clear Identity Related Offspring

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

Two Christian Three Poor Brother Islam Orthodox Grandparent Eastern Orthodox Christian Mixing Illustration Converting Three Brothers Bosnians

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

People Wanted Cities Democracy Citizens Vote Feds Mayors Fed Up

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

World Humans Art Century Pure Hollywood Awful Poison Idealism 20th Century Machinery

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

Film Cutting Wonderful Wizards Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Author:Emir Kusturica

“Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Stories Hands Together Fall Loses Chance Minutes Succeed Cinema Thread Spontaneous Falling Apart

Author:Emir Kusturica

“The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.”

Ifs Way Language Perfect Written Advantage Following Just One Melody Propose Gypsy

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

World Problem Bigs Film Certain Next Difficult Instinct Devoted Big Problems

Author:Emir Kusturica

“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.”

People Way Kind Country Problem Beautiful Novel Rocks Needed Basketball Awful Rock And Roll Tricky Superpower Yugoslavia Tito

Author:Emir Kusturica

About the Author

Born: November 24, 1954
Known for: Filmmaker
Quotes: 23

Related Topics

People World Yugoslavia Country Want Years Awful Bigs Cities Cutting

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Smrt je neprovjerena glasinaRelated source material

Sto jadaRelated source material

Similar Authors

Ivica DacicBrowse related quotes
Josip Broz TitoBrowse related quotes
John CassianBrowse related quotes
Jose Antonio CamachoBrowse related quotes
Pope DionysiusBrowse related quotes
Maximus the ConfessorBrowse related quotes
John of KronstadtBrowse related quotes
Gregory PalamasBrowse related quotes
Arsenius the GreatBrowse related quotes
Gregory of NazianzusBrowse related quotes