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A mistake is a Buddhist gift.<...

A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Well, I really want to encoura...

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it Ђ' I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Nooo! Leave that to George Luc...

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've given up asking questions...

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I got my head bashed in at a d...

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I was born in 1940 in Minnesot...

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I was doing political cartoons...

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

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

In advertising, I was frustrat...

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

They pay money to watch the sa...

They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Because I dislike being quoted...

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

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

The whole point of animation t...

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

The Brothers Grimm came along ...

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

[Steven Spielberg's films] are...

[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

People in Hollywood are not sh...

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I think there's a side of me t...

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

Nobody went to see Tideland! I...

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.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

I like being a patron of thing...

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

All films are learning process...

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

I have always got medicine I w...

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

Terry Gilliam 90 quotes

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