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Jasmila Zbanic
Bosniak Director
Born: Dec 19, 1974
Bosnia Film Me People Woman You
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege. Jasmila Zbanic
Work Siege Open Trying Break Sealed Things
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human. Jasmila Zbanic
Beautiful Socialism Think Everything Since Shift Up Childhood Human Grew Used
It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies. Jasmila Zbanic
You Important Our Had Feel Around Were Movies Electricity Fascism Watch Resisting Imagining
'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair. Jasmila Zbanic
Love Hate Pure First Despair Has-Been About First Of All Because Mixed Been Disgust Story Trauma
In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs. Jasmila Zbanic
Bosnia Cameras Labs Film
Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film. Jasmila Zbanic
Music Art Me Give Something Never Itself Want Body Use Film Image Slave
'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial. Jasmila Zbanic
Memory Denial Energy Pain Drama Those Tell Remain Tales Story Places Full Who
The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be. Jasmila Zbanic
You Better Society More Better Off Empathy Off Connected
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings. Jasmila Zbanic
Life Daily Lie Drama Destroyed Only Buildings Blood Human Want Human Beings Ordinary Show Beings Daily Life
My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation. Jasmila Zbanic
Truth Generation Destruction Overcome Tell My Generation Deal How Next Next Generation Trauma
Always, for me, when I am dealing with subjects related to my country that are very emotional, I have to find the right tone and distance because, obviously, I start with anger, asking 'why that happened' and 'why it is still happening.' I work to rise above my personal anger but still stay connected to my emotions. That's a big challenge. Jasmila Zbanic
Work Me Anger Emotions Challenge Rise Above Country Big Related Distance Find Stay Rise Above Emotional Obviously Because Dealing Always Big Challenge Am Still Subjects Very Personal Happened Happening Asking Connected Why Right Start Tone
I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around. Jasmila Zbanic
Alone Time Me People Writing Party Say Kid Bored Having More More People Write Writer Written Since Around Always Am Camera Bunch Same Essentially Same Time Room Might Who Film Need
I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power. Jasmila Zbanic
Money Power Stays Something Emotionally Make Audience Am Manage Screening Want After Them Successful Means Works Awards Film Symbolic
As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances. Jasmila Zbanic
Other Other Kids Kids Neighbors Would Torture Performance Tickets Making Sell Child Them Used Organize Shows
When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at. Jasmila Zbanic
Me Man Jokes Woman Cinema Light Care Made Long Laugh Characters Tells Pictures Identify Shed Go Existence Offers Story Film
Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women. Jasmila Zbanic
Art Time Women Money Conservative Men Liberal Distributed Thus Most Involved Mostly Ceiling Very Same Celluloid Same Time Arts Creating Film Filmmaking
I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle. Jasmila Zbanic
Speak Will Films Our Angle Parts Brains Hearts Different Want Stories Create Different Parts

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