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. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
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. — 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
