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

- 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 are more beautif…

- Terry Gilliam

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 becau…

- Terry Gilliam

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.

- Terry Gilliam

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

- Terry Gilliam

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

- Terry Gilliam

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

- Terry Gilliam

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 the…

- Terry Gilliam

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…

- Terry Gilliam