When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling. Milos Forman Read Quote
Mediocrity never goes away – but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it. Milos Forman Read Quote
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. Milos Forman Read Quote
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. Milos Forman Read Quote
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. Milos Forman Read Quote
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Milos Forman Read Quote
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. Milos Forman Read Quote
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly. Milos Forman Read Quote
When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the ’50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute. Milos Forman Read Quote
