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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Memories are doing funny things to us. "

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

" 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. "

" You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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