Czechoslovakian - Director | 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
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Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.
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Memories are doing funny things to us.
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You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.
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Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
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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.
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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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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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People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
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Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
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I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
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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.
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