Lenka Žižková

"So we remade the whole thing and it turned into a little book and it looked nice, but when the book imprint was being made. You know what a book imprint is, right? Who made it. So this Dr. Sum said, "Kids, it's not gonna pass if you guys from the research department are written in there, it's not gonna pass. I have such a bad reputation. So you know what, we'll write our communist director in there, that he was involved in it.' And we said, 'Well, put him in there, what can we do about it.' And he said, the deputy, the deputy was Mrs. Lérová, who was the wife of the Minister of Finance. And he said, 'Look, if Minister Lér's wife is there, I'm sure it will pass!' So gradually there started to be more and more people that we never even knew. So we knew the director, we knew the deputy director, but then some people from the board and the ministry started to appear in the imprint. So they were moving us down and down in the imprint, the ones that actually made it, and then it was published. When we looked at the imprint, we couldn't help but wonder. Then it looked that the board came up with it. It wasn't there anymore that it was this socialist commitment actually to justify what we were doing. So there were all these managers and we were down there like some weed."

"The Scandinavian culture is still very close to me. It completely overturned my thinking, it completely overturned my thinking, because actually that culture is always somehow connected with Christianity, with religion, and actually in the North it is not Anglicanism that prevails, but Lutheranism. That means, and I'm not somehow religious, I'm really like a real atheist, but nevertheless it means that I don't present my wealth ostentatiously in any way, not in the way I live, not in the way I dress, not in the way I walk, not in the way I have a car, not in the way I have jewellery, but not in the way I express myself, not in the way I relate to people. All of this is indeed given to a certain level, but the superiority is not there. That there's a really terribly strong relationship with nature, being, not that I've learned it, I just already feel it, what I should do or what I shouldn't do."