Milos Forman famous quotes

03-29-2025

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

#New York #Reality #Cities
Memories are doing funny things to us.
-- Milos Forman

#Memories #Funny Things
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

#Years #Realizing #Easy
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
-- Milos Forman

#France #England
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.
-- Milos Forman

#Littles #Drowning #Twigs
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 #Thinking #Self
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
-- Milos Forman

#Men #Thinking #People
I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
-- Milos Forman

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

#Democracy #Opinion
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
-- Milos Forman

#Character #Two #Years
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

#Media #Thank God #France
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
-- Milos Forman

#Paris #Eyebrows #Prague
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
-- Milos Forman

#New York #America #United States
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.
-- Milos Forman

#Decision #Political #Film
What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
-- Milos Forman

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

#Stupid #Silly #Believe
I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
-- Milos Forman

#Fall #Communism #Responsible
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.
-- Milos Forman

#Country #Sex #Years

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