Emir Kusturica Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like I personally have been lucky.
-
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
-
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
-
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
-
I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
-
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
-
Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
-
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
-
I think I'm a good judge of character.
-
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
-
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
-
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
-
Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
-
We are what we believe we are.
-
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
-
I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
-
When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
-
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
-
Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
-
I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
