I Get Out Of The Taxi And

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

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

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.

Well, I Wouldn't Say That This Experience Had Any Influence On My Decision To Do This Film About Andy, Because Andy Was Apolitical. Andy Was Never Political.

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.