Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

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.

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 Quotes