Emir Kusturica citáty

“There are always motherfuckers queuing up to pull you down to earth. But we must fly occasionally, we all have to feel that joy or we are nothing.”

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Emir Kusturica

The Guardian (4 March 2005)

“I just don't get it. The pigeon was already dead, we found it in the road. And no other censor has objected. What is the problem with you, English? You killed millions of Indians and Africans, and yet you go nuts about the circumstances of the death of a single Serbian pigeon. I am touched you hold the lives of Serbian birds so dear, but you are crazy. I will never understand how your minds work.”

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Emir Kusturica

In an interview in The Guardian (4 March 2005) http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1429569,00.html about a British censor demanding that a shot of a cat pouncing on a pigeon be cut from his film Life is a Miracle
2000s

“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.”

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Emir Kusturica

The Guardian (4 March 2005)

“That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.”

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Emir Kusturica

When asked his opinion on U.S. unilateralism. Znet interview (8 July 2002) http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2086
2000s

Emir Kusturica: Citáty v angličtine