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

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

Memories are doing funny things to us.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

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

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.