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Writers do the self-censoring...

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Because I dislike being quote...

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I...

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I think that's the problem wi...

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

It's the shock of the world i...

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

My strength, if it's anything...

My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Gorillaz virtually changed my...

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I think it's worse for actors...

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Port Talbot is a steel town, ...

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Fantasy isn't just a jolly es...

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Every few years when it's bee...

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I just like the fact I can ma...

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 90 quotes

[Steven Spielberg's films] ar...

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I do think so much of what I ...

I do think so much of what I do is reactive to the way the world sees itself, or the way the world is being portrayed. I wanted to offer an alternative to that. Whether it is accepted or not is beside the point, but it's an alternative.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I do want to say things in th...

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

A lot of people seem to get c...

A lot of people seem to get carried away that something that's made out of paper m?ch? is going to be better than not. And I always thought the original King Kong, that terrible little puppet with its hair going in all directions, was far more magical than Peter Jackson's incredibly beautifully rendered King Kong. So there's something to be said for a more primitive version of things. I think it's because it makes the audience work a little bit more, because you've got to invest it with life and reality, so I like doing that.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I was getting frustrated with...

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Hyperbole is something I'd be...

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

People used to think we just ...

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

There was a perverse side of ...

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

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