I Will Not Cut My Film Because,

Just Because I Believe In The Identity And Integrity Of My Country Doesn't Make A Xenophobe Or A Nationalist.

My Father Was An Atheist And He Always Described Himself As A Serb. Ok, Maybe We Were Muslim For 250 Years, But We Were Orthodox Before That And Deep Down We Were Always Serbs, Religion Cannot Change That. We Only Became Muslims To Survive The Turks.

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.

I Will Not Cut My Film Because, Because, Because, Because Of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

I Am A Living Illustration Of Bosnian Mixing And Converting. My Grandparents Lived In Eastern Herzegovina. Very Poor. The Turks Came And Brought Islam. There Were Three Brothers In The Family. One Was Orthodox Christian. The Other Two Took Islam To Survive.