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. — 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
