The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.