So, what scares Terry Gilliam?

I don’t know I don’t feel particularly frightened of death. I guess I’m scared of my family dying before me. Simple things scare me.

That I won’t get any more films made before I kick the bucket, that scares me. The end of the world doesn’t scare me. I am scared of becoming cynical.

You have to have some level of optimism in your work, you have to believe it can make some kind of a difference. Otherwise, you’d probably lose your drive and your ability to work. Have you ever lost that drive?

Every night! You know, Nietzsche was wrong. What doesn’t kill you does not make you stronger.

It makes you really tired. But that’s such a weird, optimistic idea, that everything can be a learning experience, for the better. It’s a very American idea.

It sounds like you read your reviews. Oh, I read all my reviews. I shouldn’t, but I actually go and find them and read them, and I go crazy.

It’s like self-flagellation. I can’t help it. I mean, I’ve got critics I admire and those I ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.