Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

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.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

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.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

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.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Flowers are almost perfect

Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I have tried so hard to do the right.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.