67 Quotes by Miloš Forman

Pero cuando se habla, no se mira. Los charlatanes nunca ven nada.

If you want to take a good shit, you have to eat a good meal.

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 have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

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

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

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 freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

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.

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