Milan Kundera

Kundera, Milan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen 8 minuti e Cosa resta di Federico Fellini?

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Do granice

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Hitchhiking Game

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Próxima salida a 50 metros

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen To agapimeno mas paihnidi

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Nitko se nece smijati

  1985, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Zert

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Já, truchlivý buh

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Eduard a Buh

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Zert

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Vlasnici kljuceva

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Nikdo se nebude smát

  1966, role: writer

Famous quotes by Milan Kundera:

"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."

"Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress."

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought."

"This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility......the characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them......"

"There are no small parts. Only small actors."

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power."

"All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual."

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

"Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity."

"When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible."

"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

"The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people."

"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."

"For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?"

"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."