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Emir Kusturica Biography

Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица, born 24 November 1954) is a Bosnian born Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies.

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

Cutting, Film, Wizard, Wizards, Wonderful

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.

Airports, Belgrade, Finished, New York, Years

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.

Hate, People, Serbia, Understanding

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

Country, Independent, Yugoslavia

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.

Art, Hollywood, Like, Place, Poison, World

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

Believe, Country, Identity, Integrity, Xenophobe

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.

Kill, Light, Movie, Time, Tunnels

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.

Gypsy, Perfect, Say, Understand, Way

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.

Atheist, Father, Maybe, Muslim, Muslims, Years

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

Know, Life, Life Is, Segment, Thinking, Yugoslavia

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.

Idea, Ideas, Identity, Thinking, Year, Years

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.

Cities, Citizens, City, Democracy, People

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

Bars, Explode, Fighter, Fighting