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- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Danis Tanovic was born on February 20, 1969 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He is a director and writer, known for No Man's Land (2001), Kotlina (2022) and An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013).
- He spent two years on the front lines filming for the Bosnian Army.
- His wife is French and they have five children. In 2009 they built together the first Montessori school in Sarajevo.
- In 2003 and 2004 he went to Kabul with Claude Lelouch and helped to rebuild the destroyed "Ariana" cinema.
- His film An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) was shot on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a budget of only EUR 17.000. It won two major awards at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2013.
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 56th Cannes International Film Festival in 2003.
- Hell is often brought on by something that we create in our own heads.
- Being a father is much tougher than making movies.
- It's not the same in England, where everyone is very down to earth and I feel more at home. If you want to meet an actor, you call a friend and he probably knows him and nothing could be easier. In America, it becomes hellish - the agents, the managers - you have to go through I don't know how many people get to hear from an actor. If anyone asks me what film-making really is, I'd say it's about waiting.
- The longest road is from zero to one. After that, it's only repeating.
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