Quotes

[on title meaning of Walking Too Fast (2009)] The Czech title is Pouta - handcuffs. It's also a play on words because it can refer to relationships, binds, ties. But there are thousands of handcuff-relationship names in foreign movies, so we wanted to avoid that. Walking Too Fast - the idea came from one of Ondrej Stindl's friends - is how Antonín [the main character] sees his life.

[on relativity of success of Walking Too Fast (2009)] I think it's quite logical that our film did not draw large audiences. It's long, sad and depressing; it really is a description of a secret policeman's mad mind in the 1980s. I'm not surprised this kind of film is not attractive for most people. They prefer to go watch movies with young people, comedies and so on. But the fact that we won those Czech Lions and also the Czech film critics' award, that tells me that we didn't fail, that we did a good job and the film is good. It also goes in the theaters again in many copies, and the five Czech Lions are a good recommendation.

[on casting of Ondřej Malý in Walking Too Fast (2009)] I was with him in a film, called Mrtvej brouk (1998), in the mid 1990s. He played a lunatic, and when I saw him, I thought that he was real, that he wasn't an actor. But my sister, who is a producer, told me he was an actor. So ten years later, when I saw his photo when we were working on the casting, I said, 'Oh yes, I remember this guy, I have to get him to come to the auditions.' When he left, all us - the screenplay writer, me and the producer - we knew that was him. Maybe not for the lead, but we knew we wanted him in the movie. And then we slowly found out that Antonín, the main character, would fit him just great.