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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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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."
Control
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
Politics
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
Humor
"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."
Life
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
Film
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
People
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
Reality
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
Politics
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"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."
Character
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