Because I Just Loved To Spend Two

Ideological Pressure Is Much More Crippling Than Commercial Pressure. Crippling To Your Own Freedom Of Thinking And Creating, Crippling The Final Results. If You Wanted To Succeed During The Really Hard-line Totalitarian Regime, You Have To Make So Many Compromises To Please The Censors That You Don't Recognize The Original Idea From The Final Result.

Definitely It Would Be Foolish To Try And Make My Czech Films Here In America, As Foolish As It Is When Some Czech Filmmakers Try To Make Movies Of America In Czechoslovakia. It Was Always Abysmal Stuff.

I Lived Long Enough In A Society Where Freedom Of Speech Was Nonexistent, And I Know What Kind Of Misery That Creates - Starting With The Fact That Life Becomes Very Boring For People Who Just Try To Survive, And Are Quiet, And Try Not To Buck The System. And, Of Course, It Can Be Devastating For People Who Try To Speak Against It.

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.

You Really See Life Around The Principals To Be As Important As The Main, Principal Actors. That's What Cinéma Vérité Taught Me - That It's Not A Question Of Having A Main Character, A Great Actor, And The Rest Is Unimportant. Every Detail, Every Face In The Crowd Is Important.