Milos Forman Quotes

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

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 never political.

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

Memories are doing funny things to us.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

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 good.

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.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

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

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

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

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

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.