A biography for Jasmila Zbanichasn’t been written yet.
“'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.”
“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.”
“In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.”
“Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.”
“I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.”
“What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.”
“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.”