So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

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.

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.

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

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.