People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life, all you have to be faithful to is the spirit of the facts, which I think I was in every case. As long as you don't violate their spirit, you can play with the facts.

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.

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.

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

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