Terry Gilliam Want Quotations

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.