Milos Forman Quotes

Milos Forman
Czechoslovakian Director
Born: Feb 18, 1932
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It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make. Milos Forman
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I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums. Milos Forman
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Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. Milos Forman
Me You Humor Important Nation Only Know Survive To Survive Centuries
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. Milos Forman
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Memories are doing funny things to us. Milos Forman
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We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases. Milos Forman
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Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. Milos Forman
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If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on. Milos Forman
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And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. Milos Forman
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I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people. Milos Forman
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When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling. Milos Forman
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And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. Milos Forman
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. Milos Forman
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I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know. Milos Forman
You Think Everybody Dreamt Somehow Know Make Hollywood Film
Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. Milos Forman
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So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. Milos Forman
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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. Milos Forman
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Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.' Milos Forman
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Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. Milos Forman
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Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. Milos Forman
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I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune. Milos Forman
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I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney. Milos Forman
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A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes? Milos Forman
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I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy. Milos Forman
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