Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
--Terry Gilliam
Everything has become too political and it is ludicrous.
--Terry Gilliam
I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
--Terry Gilliam
I don't do drugs... I don't like being fucked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.
--Terry Gilliam
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
--Terry Gilliam
I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.
--Terry Gilliam
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
--Terry Gilliam
I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.
--Terry Gilliam
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
--Terry Gilliam
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
--Terry Gilliam
It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
--Terry Gilliam
Not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
--Terry Gilliam
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
--Terry Gilliam
People don't think. My goal in work is to make them think. The media do the opposite.
--Terry Gilliam
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
--Terry Gilliam
Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.
--Terry Gilliam
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people- they no longer rule the world!
--Terry Gilliam
The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.
--Terry Gilliam
The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
--Terry Gilliam
The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.
--Terry Gilliam
Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.
--Terry Gilliam
You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.
--Terry Gilliam
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