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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. "
Milos Forman
Better
Reality
New York
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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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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. "
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" Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly. "
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" So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. "
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" In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist. "
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" First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. "
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Work
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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God
Appreciated
" Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it. "
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Never
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" 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. "
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Ideas
People
" 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. "
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" Memories are doing funny things to us. "
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Things
Doing
" 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. "
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Boring
" You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are. "
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Wrong
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" I am absolutely against any violence. "
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I Am
Against
" 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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Like
Literature
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people. "
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" 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. "
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Experience
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" Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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