Terry Gilliam Quotes - Page 3

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Good Movie, Want, Problem

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

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• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Lakes, Swamps

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• I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

  Terry Gilliam

  World, Modern, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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• Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Talent, Amount

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  War, Losing Control, Police

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• 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

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Bridges, Hollywood, Likes

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• 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

  Letting Go, Simple, Hair

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• 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

  Successful, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Medicine, People, Giving

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Trying, Guarantees, Television

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Different, Downsizing

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• 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

  Want, Sides, Coming Out

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• 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

  Reality, Honest, Sometimes

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• 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

  People, World, Want

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

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• 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

  Ideas, Technique, Stories

  "Exclusive: Laika chasing Terry Gilliam for animated film" by Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. March 13, 2014.

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• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Expectations, Marketing, Limits

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Imagination

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

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• I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

  Terry Gilliam

  Creative, Ridiculous, Cheerleader

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

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• The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

  Terry Gilliam

  Insecure, People, Groups

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

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• 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

  Simple, Office, Frustrated

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• I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

  Terry Gilliam

  War, Tired, America

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

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• 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

  People, Festivals, Patronizing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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