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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Milos Forman

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I am absolutely against any violence. "

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

" When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling. "

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

" Memories are doing funny things to us. "

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