Milos Forman
Milos Forman
Jan Tomáš Forman, known as Miloš Forman, is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor, who until 1968 lived and worked primarily in Czechoslovakia...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1932
CityCaslav, Czech Republic
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The most dangerous is that it's humiliating you. The communism humiliates your pride, because it's forcing you voluntarily to twist your spine.
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This is something that must be resolved as soon as possible, before the end of 2006. It's a security problem. I'm thinking of the different risks of disruption of the region and what this could lead to.
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It's hard to go door to door in a neighborhood where no one's in it. It's hard to ring a doorbell if no one's there. It's hard to make a phone call when no one's answering the phone.
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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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And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
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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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Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
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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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I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
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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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We have confidence in the abilities of the dedicated officers on both sides of the border to detect and seal tunnels such as these.