Milos Forman Quotes

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• Memories are doing funny things to us.
• I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
• First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
• What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
• Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was…
• When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
• So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very…
• Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
• 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…
• I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
• I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
• People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
• The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I…
• 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…
• You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
• 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 no…
• I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
• And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist…
• And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this…

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