Daily Inspiration Quote by Jasmila Žbanić

A director’s job is to choreograph attention: what gets framed, what gets cut, what gets time. Jasmila Zbanic’s line reads like an artist describing a shift in editing philosophy as much as a personal awakening. “Priorities changed” is deliberately vague, a protective move that suggests the kind of rupture you don’t casually summarize: war, illness, motherhood, grief, the slow burn of political disappointment. The passive construction matters. Priorities didn’t “change”; they were changed. Something acted on her.

The second half tightens into a credo: valuing life “differently” and appreciating “every small detail”. That’s not Hallmark gratitude, it’s a filmmaker’s ethics. In Zbanic’s world (shaped by Bosnia’s postwar reality), the “small detail” is rarely small: a gesture, a silence, a domestic object can carry the weight of trauma and survival. The sentence is soft on the surface, but the subtext is severe. When large systems fail people - nationalism, bureaucracy, the amnesia of comfortable societies - the everyday becomes the last trustworthy evidence that life is still happening.

It also hints at a political stance without declaring one. To appreciate detail is to resist abstraction: to refuse reducing human beings to categories like victim, perpetrator, refugee, “case”. A director who learns to prize the minor moment is telling you what her camera will do next: linger, listen, and insist that dignity lives in the granular.