Miloš Forman

Milos Forman, The director of “Hair,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Man on the Moon,” and other classic movies about misfits, talks with Kurt about his new film, “Goya’s Ghosts.” It’s about the life and times of Francisco Goya, whom Forman calls “the most courageous coward” — struggling to maintain commissions from the Spanish royals, and stay on the good side of the terrifying Inquisition, while painting utterly radical works about the horrors of war. Forman discusses why the history of the Inquisition spoke to him as a young man growing up under Communism, and his shock when Western filmmakers of his generation embraced the system he was rejecting.