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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute. "

" 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. "

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

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