Quotes
Authors
Emir Kusturica

"Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema."

Source : "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

Emir Kusturica

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“It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.”
“Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”
“I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.”
“The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group - credit card fraud, thefts - these types of things have been used to support them.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“A disciple is a disciple maker.”
“Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.”
“A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.282
“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.”

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