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.
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
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
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…
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity. - Terry Gilliam
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre. - Terry Gilliam
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
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
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.
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work. - Terry Gilliam
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people. - Terry Gilliam
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
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
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…
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
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…
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