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

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

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.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

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

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