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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

Life My Life Other Spend Characters Andy Because Years Just Loved Company Two

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

You School Three Year Every Films Feature Feature Films Students Know Another Five After While Produced Communist Now Amount Four

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

Russians Paris Prague Came Left Jean

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

You Sex Nothing Films Television Clean Countries Know Years Literature Whistle Communist Radio Started Violence

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

Made Later He Like French Read Years Version Literature Which Us Milan Les Many Novels Professor

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. Milos Forman

Business Since Child Theater Show Show Business Fascinated Ever

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

I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney. Milos Forman

Respect Think Had Cagney Like Anybody James Much Fascinated Ever

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

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels. Milos Zeman

Say About Foreign Ambassador Any Travels

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country? Milos Zeman

Government You Sometimes Free Country Own Extraordinary Because Am His Dictator Provoked Accused Any Being Elections Interim Who Imagine

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states. Milos Zeman

War NATO Think States Member Russia Attacking Could Any Start

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there. Miroslav Vitous

Best Me Knowledge People Vision Musical Tell Had Put How Sound Still Fantastic Should Product Thing

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. Miroslav Vitous

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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. Miroslav Vitous

Music Best Knowledge Musicians People World Country Philharmonic Some About Highly Principles Passing Teachers Dedicated Czech

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. Miroslav Vitous

Money Purpose Schools Principles

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here. Miroslav Vitous

Good Before Jazz Extremely Ways Pretty Because Arrived Years Five Much Europe Prepared Four Played Here Playing

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore. Miroslav Vitous

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