16 Quotes by The Grimm

it's unfortunate, because at the end of the day they'll win and they'll push me out of Sydney, and I won't live there. I mean, they have won really. I've already moved to Brooklyn, actually.

I'm rather prudish, rather discreet, but I don't either want to create a film without hatred,

I have no problem with the fact that people don't see the film or don't like it, because there is as many people out there who love it. Everybody has their opinion and some people are wrong.

I just wanted to make sure it would never happen again.

The greatest misconception about horror fans is that they just love gore. They love the things that horror cinema can do that they can't get anywhere else, and I think to really frighten a contemporary audience, you just can't do that with special effects and sound and camera tricks, ... You can't out-'Exorcist' 'The Exorcist,' so you sort of have to almost go under it in a sense.

And I said, 'Why don't I show you my new house? I'm redoing it.' I got so excited that I jumped on his back like a kid. He just was blown away. It was like I was attacking him. Then we went upstairs and we're in the bedroom and it was dark, and that was it. We just, in that moment in time, had the most beautiful lovemaking experience.

The concept has promise, but, as often happens in Mr. Gilliam's movies, the narrative gets gummed up with his labored surrealism. ? The movie ? has some interesting visual imagery (including gratuitous bugs), but any one of the old wives the Grimm brothers interviewed was a better storyteller.