[on working with
Milos Macourek on
Král Ubu (1996)]: "He said to me a beautiful sentence, "Franta, you are perhaps even more surrealist than I am." I didn't really understand it, so he added: "You think so abstractly and absurdly that your ideas are even bigger than mine." This was said to me by the man who perfectly switches characters' brains in
Mein Herr, Sie sind eine Witwe (1971). But we didn't quite fit together. He also wrote letters to my wife, telling her that I was terrible and didn't understand the film, that all I could see was the pictures, while storytelling also needs to follow certain logic and patterns. He was a genius in that cleverness, and I was a partner in that imagery, who can make up for anything with that imagery. But it wasn't easy."
