Music and film were Milan Kundera's passions growing up in Brno, Chechoslavakia. He joined the Prague Acedemy of Music and Dramatic Arts, which allowed him to find his inner-self and express it freely. This set the table for the direction of writing. He has a knack of capturing human emotions on paper that make the reader reflect and ponder. He says of himself, "I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."