Milos Forman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1931. As a child, he was fascinated by movies and wanted to be an actor; but his father wanted him to become a doctor. When he left high school, he worked as a clerk for the State Railroad Institute. He left the Czechoslovakian Academy of Arts two years later because of political oppression
Under an assumed name, he immigrated to France at age 18 and became a film director. His first film was Loves of a Blonde (1961), which is considered an important early work of the French New Wave. His following films include Hair (1967), Taking Off (1971), Amadeus (1984), The People vs.
Larry Flynt (1996), The Gleaners and I (2000), and Black Book (2006).
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.Milos Forman
Memories are doing funny things to us.Milos Forman
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.Milos Forman
