67 Quotes by Miloš Forman

Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums.

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.