So, Thanks God, Our Films, Our First

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.

First Of All, To Defend My Work, I Had To Believe That I Am Doing A Totally Silly, Stupid, Innocent Comedy.

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.

When You Finish A Film, Before The First Paying Audience Sees It, You Don't Have Any Idea. You Don't Know If You Made A Success Or A Flop, When It Comes To The Box Office.

People Must Not Think That All Bad In Man Which Is Unleashed, The Moment You Impose Censorship Disappears From Man.