"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is,……" — 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 what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
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24 Quotes by Milos Forman
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Memories are doing funny things to us.
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I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
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First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent…
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What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
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Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because…
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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
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So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in…
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So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very…
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
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Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you…
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I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
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I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
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