Terry Gilliam Quotes

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• 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

  Dream, Reality, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Acceptance, Asking Questions, Given

  "What *Should* We Be Worried About?". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. 2013.

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Two

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – 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.

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  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• 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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  Thinking, Knows, Has Beens

  Source: www.cnn.com

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

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  Lying, Talking, Dislike

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• 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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  Might, Mediocre, Be Good

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

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  Important, Talent, Filmmaking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• 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.

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  Heart, Reality, Cartoon

  Source: collider.com

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• What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

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  People, Brain, Important

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• Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

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  Voice, People

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• 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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  Beautiful, Moving, Reality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.

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

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  Mediocrity, Enough, Saved

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Long, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

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  Trying, World, Kind

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

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  Attitude, People, World

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.

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  Dream, Remember, Feels

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• 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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  Unique, Stupidity, Skins

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• 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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  Interesting, Stories, Reputation

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• 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.

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  Running, Nice, Ipods

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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

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  Sorry, Mean, Wife

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• [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.

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  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. 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

  Song, People, Watches

  "Terry Gilliam Talks The 'Simplistic' Films Of Steven Spielberg, Dumbing Down Of Audiences, ‘Don Quixote’ Start Date & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 07, 2014.

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• Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

  Terry Gilliam

  Hyperbole

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Magic

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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