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

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

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.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.