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

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

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

You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.

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.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.