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

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

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

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

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.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Memories are doing funny things to us.