Milos Forman Quotes

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.

Milos Forman

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
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• Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Faithful

• Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Thinking
  • Team

• There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Thinking

• I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

  

  Asafa Powell
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Lazy

• Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Positive

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't think bonuses are always bad.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Bonus

• Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Years
  • Track

• I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Thinking
  • Obsessive

• I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Left

• I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  

  Montel Williams
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Profound

• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Yourself
  • First
  • Patience

• The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Science
  • Changes
  • Novelty

• We fought hard all day and kept slugging, ... I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Thinking
  • Spirit
  • Faithful