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. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
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… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
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… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
