I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun—me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, because that is the only way to open the film to a certain kind of lightness. If everybody involved feels the seriousness, the heavy weight of money being stamped on movies, it somehow influences the result in a way which is anesthizing to life.

—Milos Forman