"A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women."

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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

— Terry Gilliam