[on playing
Karel Čapek in
Clovek proti zkáze (1989)]: "Of course, we tried to achieve as much visual similarity as possible, including his spinal disease-marked way of walking and head movement, which in addition caused me an almost constant feeling of pain. I believe that this also helped me to understand his rich but complicated life more closely. The fact that we had the opportunity to film in the authentic setting of Capek's villa had a special effect on me. I had never been there before. I walked through the house on the first day with a kind of heightened sense of the fact that whatever caught my eye or whatever I picked up was in the hands of
Karel Čapek or
Olga Scheinpflugová. And as I sat at his desk, in his chair, writing with his battered wooden pen and drinking coffee from his cup, my knees shook for a long time even sitting down. That was one of the greatest experiences for me."
