Terry Gilliam Quotes

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I make more movies than I see.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.