Milos Forman

“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.”

“We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.”

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

“Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.”

“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.”

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

“Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.”