My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix. Terry Gilliam More Quotes by Terry Gilliam More Quotes From 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 festival. Terry Gilliam patronizingfestivalspeople I have always got medicine I want to give to people. Terry Gilliam medicinegivingpeople Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it. Terry Gilliam selfwantrunning The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! Terry Gilliam insecuregroupspeople I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous! Terry Gilliam ridiculouscheerleadercreative It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is. Terry Gilliam busyforgetworld 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. Terry Gilliam tiredwaramerica Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools. Terry Gilliam technologytoolsjobs I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination. Terry Gilliam imaginationkidsthinking Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there. Terry Gilliam amounttalentthinking Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience. Terry Gilliam filmmakingtalentimportant I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed. Terry Gilliam basesmodernworld I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. Terry Gilliam swampslakescountry I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in. Terry Gilliam successfulviewsthinking Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things. Terry Gilliam hatestarswar 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. Terry Gilliam losing-controlpolicewar I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days. Terry Gilliam simpleletting-gohair 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. Terry Gilliam frustratedofficesimple People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. Terry Gilliam menpeoplethinking 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. Terry Gilliam apologizingdesperatebrother
