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.
Terry GilliamI don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
Terry GilliamNow, 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.
Terry GilliamYou know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.
Terry GilliamNooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.
Terry Gilliam