One of my favorite films of all the time. It's just so wonderfully done... and it shows how much he likes people.
Well, I found his interview on BBC radio <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
- A interviewer asks Milos Forman if there is any different way he makes films in the U.S. than in Czeck. Milos answers "I want to believe there is not but actually there is. Knowledge of the language is different... I realized one thing. I can't function anymore as a screen writer... I don't have this nuance of the language (in terms of crafting the characterization of the people by the way they talk.) So the only change I made of is that I turn to adapt materials which are originally written by English speaking writers.
One of the reasons that I decided to make documentaries was that I felt that I wouldn't be able to write or capture the nuance of people from this culture which makes what they are. I didn't grow up in this culture so in a way I feel like I'm an anthropologist or a psychologyst who chooses to use film as a medium instead of writing a paper. :)
The next one is where Milos Forman talks about what a director is.
- "A director is a little bit of everything. Good director is the director who chooses these professional people who are better than he is... It's a strange profession."
I'd love to have this experience in the future. I did have a taste of this a little bit for my thesis but now I pretty much do everything. It's actually an amazing learning experience for me at this moment so I'd like to continue this for a while.
Thank you.
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