Milos Forman quotes
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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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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
-- Milos FormanSource : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
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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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“I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.”
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“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”
-- Milos FormanSource : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
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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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“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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“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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“When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by 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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“What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.”
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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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“I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.”
-- Milos FormanSource : "For Lenin, read Lennon", www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2000.
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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.”
-- Milos Forman
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