Terry Gilliam Quotes

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

I love movies. I'm a nut. There's nothing I would rather do than see three movies a day.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I'm a movie fanatic. I watch probably four movies a day - not because I'm a lunatic, but because I just love movies.

Anurag was always too passionate about 'Raman Raghav 2.0' to care about anything else. There never was a 'Bombay Velvet' hangover.

I used to see an ridiculous quantity of films; I think I saw every possible movie.

I am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don't want to get addicted.

I saw 'Boogie Nights' more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen.

I've been watching films my whole life and am completely obsessed with them.

I never was fanatical about films when I was younger.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

There's a lot that I watch over and over. But I have to say, because of my line of work as a horror-movie hostess, I've probably seen Night Of The Living Dead more than any movie. I've probably seen it more than George A. Romero.

I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.