Usually You Don't Think About

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.

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.

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.

So I Left With Jean Claude And Went To Paris, So When The Russians Came To Prague, I Was In Paris.

You Know What Happened, You Know, In 1938: France, England, You Know, Just Sold Out Czechoslovakia To Hitler.