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. 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 patronizing festivals people I have always got medicine I want to give to people. Terry Gilliam medicine giving people 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 self want running The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! Terry Gilliam insecure groups people I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous! Terry Gilliam ridiculous cheerleader creative 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 busy forget world 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 tired war america 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 technology tools jobs 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 imagination kids thinking 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 amount talent thinking Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience. Terry Gilliam filmmaking talent important 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 bases modern world I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. Terry Gilliam swamps lakes country 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 successful views thinking 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 hate stars war 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-control police war 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 simple letting-go hair 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 frustrated office simple People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. Terry Gilliam men people thinking 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 apologizing desperate brother
