Because If You Lived, As I Did,

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.

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.

First Of All, To Defend My Work, I Had To Believe That I Am Doing A Totally Silly, Stupid, Innocent Comedy.

I Get Out Of The Taxi And It's Probably The Only City Which In Reality Looks Better Than On The Postcards, New York.

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.