Emir Kusturica Quotes
Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.
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It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.
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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
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To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
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Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.
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Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
