And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
From Milos Forman
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
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.
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
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.
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