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.

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

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

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

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