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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. "
Milos Forman
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" People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. "
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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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" I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Memories are doing funny things to us. "
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" Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it. "
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" 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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" Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. "
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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. "
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" Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other. "
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" You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are. "
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" Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. "
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