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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."
"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
"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."
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
"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."
"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."
"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."
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
"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."
"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
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