Terry Gilliam ,quotes

I don't think you ever learn j...

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.

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Talent is less important in fi...

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

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If you really want your films ...

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.

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Every few years when it's been...

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.

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Actually, I began to think tha...

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

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Port Talbot is a steel town, w...

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.

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Gorillaz virtually changed my ...

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

Terry Gilliam 03.03.2018 03:03:03 90 quotes

The success of the Hollywood m...

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

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You get trapped by stories. Th...

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

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When it came to slaughtering s...

When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

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Fantasy isn't just a jolly esc...

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.

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I hate losing laughs; they're ...

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

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They all sort of get mixed up ...

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

Terry Gilliam 03.03.2018 03:03:03 90 quotes

You know the hardest thing to ...

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.

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John Cleese was with a group c...

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

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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.

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Invariably, what I'm trying to...

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

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The more money you have to wor...

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.

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I've always sworn that not hav...

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

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Whatever I do might be good, i...

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

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