Terry Gilliam Quotes

Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you're getting into it, you think, 'Ooh, there's another idea,' and you're shooting some more and, 'Oh, here's another thing. Let's do that.' I'm always changing and adding. That's just the way my mind works.

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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.

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I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile.

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of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

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It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

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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.

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The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair.

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I was always keen to shock people and shake them up Eric was a little bit more traditionally motivated in really being just funny all the time.

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People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

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

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It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grimm' came along, I was jelly.

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We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

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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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If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive.

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Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film.

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There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation.

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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 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.

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It often happens with films. You get to the end of production and you find that the film I was making is not necessarily the film that the financiers thought they were getting. What I find normally happens in those situations is that they find a compromise which isn't particularly good for the film, or you get into a head-to-head ego battle which, again, might not be good for the film.

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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.

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

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I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make it better. Everybody's happy now. We're a big happy family.

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We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film.

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Of the six-month hiatus from The Brothers Grimm, ... It was a gamble. But it was a great relief to go off to do something else. You get so nonobjective at the end there. When I came back to London, they asked me to finish 'Grimm' the way I wanted to, and in the interim, I'd actually seen a few things we could do to improve it. The film benefited from that gap.

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I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.

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