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

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

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

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

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.

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

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.