I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

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.

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

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

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.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.