Milos Forman

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

— Milos Forman

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries.…

— Milos Forman

Definitely, it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some…

— Milos Forman

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on…

— Milos Forman

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

— Milos Forman

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some…

— Milos Forman

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their…

— Milos Forman

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

— Milos Forman

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my…

— Milos Forman

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

— Milos Forman

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and…

— Milos Forman

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results.…

— Milos Forman

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

— Milos Forman

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's…

— Milos Forman

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

— Milos Forman

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was…

— Milos Forman

I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney.

— Milos Forman

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or…

— Milos Forman

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way,…

— Milos Forman

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know…

— Milos Forman

I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a…

— Milos Forman

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most…

— Milos Forman

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you…

— Milos Forman

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at…

— Milos Forman

Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was,…

— Milos Forman