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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

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

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

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

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

Gorillaz virtually changed my...

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

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

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

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

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

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 more prone to anarchy tha...

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

To me, the stories that have ...

To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them. They walk home 20 blocks the wrong way. Or they lock themselves in their office. Or they find themselves weeping when in the shower after the film. And those intrigue me, because I know I've touched something inside them.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

It's hard for me to worry abo...

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 90 quotes

I was an incredible Anglophil...

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

My problem is I'm like a junk...

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Nooo! Leave that to George Lu...

Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I want brave people. Fearless...

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

All films are learning proces...

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Nobody went to see Tideland! ...

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

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