Milos Forman
Milos Forman
Jan Tomáš Forman, known as Miloš Forman, is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor, who until 1968 lived and worked primarily in Czechoslovakia...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1932
CityCaslav, Czech Republic
character thinking self
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.
littles drowning twigs
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.
france england sold-out
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
years realizing easy
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.
memories funny-things
Memories are doing funny things to us.
new-york reality cities
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
basic democratic eu formula harms principle proposed vote
The formula proposed by the EU harms the basic democratic principle that each vote should have the same democratic value.