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
communism dangerous forcing twist
The most dangerous is that it's humiliating you. The communism humiliates your pride, because it's forcing you voluntarily to twist your spine.
disruption lead region resolved risks security soon thinking
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.
accept european fair fully means minority percent proposal remain seem union voters wins
This means that if 54.5 percent of voters in Montenegro want independence, then we remain in union with Serbia and a minority wins over the majority. This does not seem fair to me, but we fully accept the proposal of the European Union.
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If you look over the last three years, you can see Montenegro has a durable economy.
basis deal economy great natural ours union
If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.
cheap cheapest farmers imports matter people port prices produces protect wheat
Serbia produces wheat and so - understandably - they want to protect their farmers from imports of cheap wheat and bread. But we have our own port and think that we should give our people the cheapest prices for bread, no matter where we import it from.
collapsed ended festival raised second supposed
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.
absolutely afford brilliant communist effective knew members punish somebody
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.
committees controlled everybody placed says
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.
humor
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
everybody infected western whoever
First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
bright buried issue light shine
This will shine a very bright light on an issue that has been camouflaged and buried for a long time.
memories funny-things
Memories are doing funny things to us.