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Milos Forman Quotes

Czechoslovakian - Director | February 18, 1932 -

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

Paris Left Russians Prague 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.

Good God Media Appreciated First

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.

Decision Experience Influence 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.

Hope Saying Doing You Know Listen

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

Time New York New First Time First

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

You Know Out France Just Happened

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.

Literature Violence You Sex Know

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

Learn You Director Everything Rather

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.

Time School Control Society Film

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.'

Literature Years Professor Us Milan

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

Father Mother Teacher Parents Small

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

Love Music Talk Things Because Make

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