"Why do I make movies? I'm looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where no director has planted his flag of conquest, a world that exists only in fairy tales."
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ProÄŤ vĹŻbec toÄŤĂm filmy? Hledám Zemi nikoho, ostrov, na kterĂ˝ ještÄ› nevstoupila noha filmaĹ™ova, planetu, na kterĂ© ještÄ› žádnĂ˝ reĹľisĂ©r nevztyÄŤil vlajku objevitele, svÄ›t, kterĂ˝ existuje jen v pohádkách. — Quoted on the website of the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague (in English and Czech).
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Karel Zeman
Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation.
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