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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 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. "

Milos Forman

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Milos Forman

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

" 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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" 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, 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig. "

" 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 am absolutely against any violence. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "