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

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

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

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.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.