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" I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now. "

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" They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. "

Terry Gilliam

Bad

Trying

Marriage

" It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me. "

" People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good. "

" John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort. "

" Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. "

" I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. "

" You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. "

" In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that. "

Terry Gilliam

Office

Time

" I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. "

" Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. "

" Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid. "

" At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! "

" I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days. "

Terry Gilliam

World

Simple

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

Terry Gilliam

Down

" It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. "

" There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. "

" We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. "

" We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. "

" It was lights, camera, inaction. "