Terry Zwigoff

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States,…

— Terry Zwigoff

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's…

— Terry Zwigoff

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so…

— Terry Zwigoff

I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,'…

— Terry Zwigoff

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.'…

— Terry Zwigoff

I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was…

— Terry Zwigoff

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

— Terry Zwigoff

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life,' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not…

— Terry Zwigoff

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest…

— Terry Zwigoff

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that…

— Terry Zwigoff

Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it…

— Terry Zwigoff

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

— Terry Zwigoff

When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside…

— Terry Zwigoff

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that…

— Terry Zwigoff

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen…

— Terry Zwigoff

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all…

— Terry Zwigoff

One of the reasons I did 'Louie Bluie' and 'Crumb' with Criterion was because I like a lot of their older French…

— Terry Zwigoff

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around…

— Terry Zwigoff

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

— Terry Zwigoff

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

— Terry Zwigoff

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.

— Terry Zwigoff

Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques…

— Terry Zwigoff

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is…

— Terry Zwigoff

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities…

— Terry Zwigoff

For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did…

— Terry Zwigoff