Terry Gilliam Quotations | Page 2

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

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.