67 Quotes by Miloš Forman

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

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

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 Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

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 person says or how this person think(s), you know.

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.

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 violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

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

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

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