Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 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. I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, 10 in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. Cities are humiliating places to live, particularly in this part of the world.
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Everything must be sold! Everything must be for sale! Everyone must buy! Everyone must have a Jeep!
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Miloshevich`s main mistake was that he thought the Serbs numbered 250 million and that he didn`t have two Atom bombs in his pocket.
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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.
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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. Why don`t I see a Frank Capra today? Because people aren`t like this anymore? People haven`t changed that much in 60 years.
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In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don`t have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.
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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.
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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?
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Trivia
Grew up in Sarajevo.
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One of four director whose two movies had won Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, other three being Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) ), Shohei Imamura (Narayama bushiko (1983) and Unagi (1997) ) and Bille August (Pelle erobreren (1987) and Goda viljan, Den (1992) ).
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Father of Stribor Kusturica.
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Often stays in Douains, Eure, France.
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Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993
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In 1995. Kusturica knocked down (during the FEST - Belgrade's International Film Festival) Mr. Nebojsa Pajkic leader of New Serbian Right movement. Symbolicaly enough, Mrs. Pajkic tried to protect her husband by hitting Kusturica with the small bag, a present from Radovan Karadzic, leader of Bosnian Serbs.
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Often works with actors Slavko Stimac and Miki Manojlovic.
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In 1993, he challenged Vojislav Seselj, leader of Serbia's ultranationalist movement, to a duel. He suggested that it should be in the heart of Belgrade, at high noon (!), with any weapon Mr. Seselj chooses. Vojislav Seselj refused this offer saying that he "didn't want to be accused of a murder of an artist".
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Is an only child.
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Since 1986 he plays bass guitar in "Zabranjeno Pusenje" (also known as "The No Smoking Orchestra"), a rock band from his hometown Sarajevo. In 1989 the band and its members moved to Belgrad. Super 8 Stories (2001) is a domcumentary about "No Smoking".
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1986 -1988 played bass guitar in "Zabranjeno Pusenje", a rock band from his hometown Sarajevo.
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Since 1986 Emir Kusturica has played the bass for the Yugoslav Gipsy -Techno-Rock band "No Smoking". Soon before the Balkan war broke out in the early 1990s, band leader Dr. Nele Karajlic moved to Belgrade and in 1994 formed a new band with younger musicians, including Stribor Kusturica, Emir Kusturica's son, on drums. In 1998 the "No Smoking" composed the music for Emir Kusturica's film Crna macka, beli macor (1998), which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival of that year. In 1999 "No Smoking" recorded a new album "Unza Unza Time", produced by the Universal record company, as well as a video clip for MTV and Video Music, directed by Emir Kusturica himself.
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Two children, Stribor and Dunja.
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Acording to Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter 28 January, 2001, Emir Kusturica and Zabranjeno Pusenje recently had a gig in Moscow.
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Grand jury at 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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Changed his first name Emir to Nemanja. The real reason is unknown but the rumor is that he did it to proof his Serbian roots.
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Has not been to Sarajevo, his birthplace, since 1992.
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