Milos Forman Quotes

Czechoslovakian - Director Born: February 18, 1932

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

City, New York, Reality, Better, Looks

Memories are doing funny things to us. Milos Forman

Funny, Memories, Doing, Us, Things

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 Forman

Character, Myself, Evil, Control, Think

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

Democracy, Opinion, Free, You, Tell

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

Hope, Challenge, Mediocrity, Never, Away

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. Milos Forman

Music, Man, Water, Glasses, Glass, Nest

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. Milos Forman

Change, Childhood, Decision, World, Know

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. Milos Forman

Humor, Me, You, Know, Important, Nation

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. Milos Forman

Good, God, Thanks, Media, Appreciated

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

You, Know, France, Out, Just, England

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots. Milos Forman

Pressure, You, Mercy, Idiots, Two

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. Milos Forman

Freedom, You, Easy, Lose, Precious

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

Man, Moment, People, Think, You, Bad

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. Milos Forman

Lie, You, Know, Party, Guilty, Way

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. Milos Forman

Control, You, Know, Person, Everything

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

Life, Loved, My Life, Company, Two, Just

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

Work, I Am, Stupid, Believe, Innocent

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. Milos Forman

You, Know, Dangerous, Want, First, Like

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. Milos Forman

Day, Red, Remember, You, Flag, Know

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

Think, You, Know, Hollywood, Film, Make

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. Milos Forman

School, You, Three, Know, Now, Students

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

Paris, Left, Russians, Prague, Came

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. Milos Forman

Decision, Experience, Political, Say

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. Milos Forman

Hope, Doing, Saying, You, Know, Listen

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. Milos Forman

Time, New York, New, First Time, First

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

Violence, You, Television, Know, Sex

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