The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.
Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with other major religions and was much softer and more liberal.
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.
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.
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
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.
In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.
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.
As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.
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.