You know what happened, you know, in 1938 France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.
Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney.
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.
I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney.