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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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"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."

"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."

"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."

"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."

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

"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."

"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."

"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."

"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."

"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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