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
answering call door hard phone ring
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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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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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.
humor
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
france england sold-out
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
democracy opinion free-press
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.