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

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.

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

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

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

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.