Quotes by Milos Forman

Milos Forman

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

Character

Two

Years

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.

Easy

Realizing

Years

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don’t talk subversive things.

Communist

Composer

Film

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

Film

Foolish

Trying

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

Believe

Silly

Stupid

For me, speaking is work. It’s not like when you breathe.

Breathe

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

Cities

New York

Reality

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates – starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.

Freedom Of Speech

Long

People

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press – that’s the cornerstone.

Cornerstones

Democracy

Opinion

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

Film

Hollywood

Thinking

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America

Audience

Believe

Breathe

Character

Cities

Communist

Composer

Compromise

Cornerstones

Country

Decision

Democracy

Drama

Drowning

Dumb

Easy

England

Eyebrows

Fall

Film

Foolish

France

Freedom Of Speech

Funny Sex

Funny Things

Hollywood

Important

Influence

Littles

Long

Masturbation

Media

Memories

Men

New York

Office

Old Movie

Opinion

Paris

People

Political

Prague

Quality

Reality

Realizing

Self

Sex

Silly

Sold Out

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Quotes by Milos Forman

Milos Forman

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

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.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don’t talk subversive things.

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

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

For me, speaking is work. It’s not like when you breathe.

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

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press – that’s the cornerstone.

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

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