What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.

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

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

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

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.