Quotes from Terry Gilliam

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

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

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

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.

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.

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.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

I want this on my tombstone: Here lies Terry Gilliam--RIP--'He giggled in awe.

Be Safe: Be Suspicious Suspicion Breeds Confidence Don't suspect a friend, report him

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 because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

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

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

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

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.