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Milos Forman

Profession : Director

Birth : February 18, 1932

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

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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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Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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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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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Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

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When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

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

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

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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.

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