Communists Love To Make Films About Composers,

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.

So I Left With Jean Claude And Went To Paris, So When The Russians Came To Prague, I Was In Paris.

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.

For Me, Speaking Is Work. It's Not Like When You Breathe.

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.