The audience in Moscow un- derstood your film and gave you an award. Do you expect the American public, or the people who decide on the Os- car, will also understand? - Each audience is for itself, and the Oscar is a fantasy, a fairy tale that motivates viewers to go to the cinema. And, like every fai- ry tale, it has some dramaturgical legality, there is a pattern accor- ding to which you should make a film that aspires to win an Os- car. I think our film about tra- in drivers is a long way from that pattern. If you could choose from every award in the world, wo- uld an Oscar be the one you would like to receive? - An Oscar isn’t even in the top ten. In the first place is the award “Dearest parent”. I have not rece- ived it yet, I haven’t sufficiently proven myself. But I work, I try, I do everything I can to get it. I also tried bribery, but it didn’t succeed. For that award you really need to get stuck in. But I’m sure it’s worth every penny!
son will find it much more dif- ficult in another profession, and he will not know how to help him. What if his son becomes a taxi driver, he will be murdered by a sick passenger; what if he beco- mes a mayor, he will be bribed by a business partner, who will later murder him. A train driver parent knows that there are much wor- se and more dangerous jobs away from the tracks. You talk about victims, in some way laughing at death. Can you transcend life’s tor- ments with humour? - Humour is the only cure. There is no other. Maybe love, but there are few who know how to love. Train drivers talk like this: “I was driving yesterday and a man jumped out on me. I went left, he went left, I went right, he went ri- ght. And I ran him down...” That’s how I learned how to tell the story of this film. Because, really, to hu- mour nothing should be sacred. Humour should not acknowledge and respect. It is a product of the freedom of spirit and that’s why it is so healing.
„Dnevnik mašinovođe“ priča je o Milošu, o njegovom ocu Dušku, o glavnom glumcu Lazaru Ristovskom, o ljudima ovde i tamo… “Train Driver’s Diary” is a story about Miloš, about his father Duško, about the main actor Lazar Ristovski, about people here and there...
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