“All nations have their mythologies. For example, the US creates its mythology according to the example of Ancient Rome and gets very nervous when it sees that other nations want to build their own mythologies. Small nations have only one way to work it out; they should strengthen their national mythology. And it should be done in parallel with the American one. Globalization erases national differences and I think the new concept of the planet should be the unity of small nations. All small nations have the same problems as they are isolated from the world,” said Serbian film producer Emir Kusturica, who also says the Armenian audience is closer to him than the American one. Kusturica also said that the Serbian people are very like the heroes of the stories of Chekhov; they like to sit and drink tea, talk, dream, imagine, but don’t like working. “We are waiting for a European emissary to tell us what to do in order to move,” he said. Kusturica says the Armenian and Serbian people have many similarities.
