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

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" You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. "

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

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

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

" You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are. "

" So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. "

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

" Memories are doing funny things to us. "

" 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. "

" The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. "

" 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. "

" Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly. "

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

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

" Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. "

" 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. "

" When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. "

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

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

" People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. "

" I am absolutely against any violence. "

" The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are the boss; you set the pace and rhythm of your reading. In the movie house, you can't do that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases. "