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"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."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
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"Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so."
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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
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"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."
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"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."
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"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
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"Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave."
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"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
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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."
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"So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good."
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"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."
Life
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
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"Memories are doing funny things to us."
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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."
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"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."
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"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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