For Me, Speaking Is Work. It's Not

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

Ideological Pressure Is Much More Crippling Than Commercial Pressure. Crippling To Your Own Freedom Of Thinking And Creating, Crippling The Final Results. If You Wanted To Succeed During The Really Hard-line Totalitarian Regime, You Have To Make So Many Compromises To Please The Censors That You Don't Recognize The Original Idea From The Final Result.

I Lived Long Enough In A Society Where Freedom Of Speech Was Nonexistent, And I Know What Kind Of Misery That Creates - Starting With The Fact That Life Becomes Very Boring For People Who Just Try To Survive, And Are Quiet, And Try Not To Buck The System. And, Of Course, It Can Be Devastating For People Who Try To Speak Against It.

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.

I'm Convinced The Beatles Are Partly Responsible For The Fall Of Communism.