I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.
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I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood.
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I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
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Memories are doing funny things to us.
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I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
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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.
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People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
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First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
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You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
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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.
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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.
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So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
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I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
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Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students.
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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.
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