Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

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

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

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.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.