34+ Milos Forman Quotes On Education, Future And Jim Carrey

Milos Forman was a Czechoslovakian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for directing the films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). He won two Academy Awards for Best Director for his work on those films. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Milos Forman on leadership, education, life.

Top 10 Milos Forman Quotes

1. I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
2. 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.
3. So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
4. What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
5. You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
6. People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
10. When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

Milos Forman Short Quotes

• For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.
• Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.
• I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
• Memories are doing funny things to us.
• I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Milos Forman Quotes About Life

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

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life, all you have to be faithful to is the spirit of the facts, which I think I was in every case. As long as you don't violate their spirit, you can play with the facts. — Milos Forman

You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important. — Milos Forman

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. — Milos Forman

Milos Forman Quotes About Communist

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom. — Milos Forman

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. — Milos Forman

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. — Milos Forman

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. — Milos Forman

Milos Forman Quotes About Films

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival. — Milos Forman

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff. — Milos Forman

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know. — Milos Forman

Milos Forman Famous Quotes And Sayings

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. — Milos Forman

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

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. — Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. — Milos Forman

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result. — Milos Forman

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. — Milos Forman

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. — Milos Forman

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it. — Milos Forman

Life Lessons by Milos Forman

1. Milos Forman's work emphasizes the importance of individuality and the power of creative expression. His films often explore themes of rebellion and the struggle against oppressive forces.
2. Forman's films also demonstrate the power of art to transcend political and social barriers, as well as the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures and perspectives.
3. Through his work, Forman encourages viewers to think critically about the world around them and to challenge the status quo.