Milos Forman Quotes

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.

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• The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

  

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• We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.

  

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• Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

  

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• We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.

  

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• The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.

  

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• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

  

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• We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.

  

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• The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

  

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• 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.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Foolish
  • Filmmaker