People Must Not Think That

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.

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.

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.

Because I Just Loved To Spend Two Years Of My Life In The Company Of Andy Kaufman And Other Characters.

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.