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

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.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

The limit of impossible lies possibility.

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.