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All Quotes by author - Milos Forman

" A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes? "

" And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. "

" And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. "

" Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom. "

" Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. "

" Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. "

" Definitely, it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. "

" Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. "

" First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. "

" First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined. "

" Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other. "

" Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. "

" I am absolutely against any violence. "

" I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people. "

" I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy. "

" I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney. "

" If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on. "

" I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. "

" In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist. "

" Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. "

" I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival. "

" I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. "

" I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know. "

" I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune. "

" It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make. "

" I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife. "

" I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums. "

" Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it. "

" Memories are doing funny things to us. "

" Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.' "

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