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

Memories are doing funny things to us.

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

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.

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

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.

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