People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

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.

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.

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.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

If somebody has a question, they only have to ask one of us because we share a brain. We seriously have never said something different than the other one.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

It's easier to promote things, if you have fans.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?