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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The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
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I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
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The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.
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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.
