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, Better, Reality, New

Memories are doing funny things to us. Milos Forman

Funny, Memories, Doing, Things, Us

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

People, Long, Holocaust, Understand

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. Milos Forman

Memories, You, Storytelling, Boring

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 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, Water, Man, Glasses, Glass, Nest

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

Moment, Man, People, Think, You, Bad

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, Two, Idiots

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, Decision, Childhood, World, You

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, Lose, Easy, Realize, Years

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. Milos Forman

Good, Fighting, Drama, Status Quo, Quo

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

Humor, Me, Survive, You, Know, Important

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. Milos Forman

Business, Child, Show, Show Business

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on. Milos Forman

Fear, Live, Money, Me, Difficult, Nest

I am absolutely against any violence. Milos Forman

I Am, Violence, Against, Am, Absolutely

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

Democracy, Opinion, You, Free, Tell

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, Guilty, Know, Way, Party

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, Committee

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, Doing

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, Want, Dangerous, 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, You, Remember, Know, Flag

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, Know, Three, Now, Year

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, Prague, Russians, Came

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, Media, Appreciated, First

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