Ninety-Eight percent of a film is whether you have the money or not. If
he is saying 'I can get you the money,' that's the way you have to go. I
mean, you end up with the most awful people in this business, which is
why I have left. They are just horrible lying shits. About ninety-two
percent of them are like that. So it is really an industry to avoid,
people! Stay away! If you want to find horrible, mad, lying, insane
people, join the film industry! But inside that world there are some
very clever and gifted actors and writers and directors. But it is
insane. It is literally insane.
-- Eric Idle. Comments in the short "The Madness and
Misadventures of Munchausen" on the DVD of "The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen" (movie, 1988) directed by Terry Gilliam.