Milos Forman — Czechoslovakian Director born on February 18, 1932,

Jan Tomáš Forman, known as Miloš Forman, is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor, who until 1968 lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia... (wikipedia)

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
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.
Memories are doing funny things to us.
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
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.