Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

— Terry Gilliam

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in…

— Terry Gilliam

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think…

— Terry Gilliam

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to…

— Terry Gilliam

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…

— Terry Gilliam

It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly…

— Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

— Terry Gilliam

When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I…

— Terry Gilliam

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

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— Terry Gilliam

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in…

— Terry Gilliam

Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so…

— Terry Gilliam

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

— Terry Gilliam

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly…

— Terry Gilliam