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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 they see there are two crazy people in the world. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

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 they see there are two crazy people in the world.

It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grimm' came along, I was jelly. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grimm' came along, I was jelly.

It wasn't like sitting down and saying, 'Let's see if we can design a film that will capture the book, but maybe work for a mass audience,' ... There was none of that. It was 'Can we translate this book into a film?' - Terry Gilliam Quotes

It wasn't like sitting down and saying, 'Let's see if we can design a film that will capture the book, but maybe work for a mass audience,' ... There was none of that. It was 'Can we translate this book into a film?'

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

That's my backroom project nonstop, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

That's my backroom project nonstop,

I like the fact that my films have always encouraged bad and good reviews. The most depressing thing would be a review that was just mediocre. That would kill me, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I like the fact that my films have always encouraged bad and good reviews. The most depressing thing would be a review that was just mediocre. That would kill me,

I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,

Hate

Yeah, off in the middle distance somewhere, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Yeah, off in the middle distance somewhere,

Harry [Shearer], Joel Siegel, and I used to be a little group for awhile, trying to do children's television, because it was the one area that nobody was paying attention to in those days... - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Harry [Shearer], Joel Siegel, and I used to be a little group for awhile, trying to do children's television, because it was the one area that nobody was paying attention to in those days...

I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it.

I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile.

Films

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno. This is just agony for him. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno. This is just agony for him.

It was a hard shoot, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

It was a hard shoot,

Hard

Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career.

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him to be in this non-stop now. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him to be in this non-stop now.

We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film.

Magic

I don't have a problem (with the bad reviews). - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I don't have a problem (with the bad reviews).

If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive.

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

It was lights, camera, inaction. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

It was lights, camera, inaction.

British Director

Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film.

He just had a different view of the film. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

He just had a different view of the film.

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

I can report that we are a hit in Germany, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I can report that we are a hit in Germany,

Usually I have my big fight at the end of a film, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Usually I have my big fight at the end of a film,

Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.

I like taking [movie stars] and letting them be something very different, ... Actors love it because it's an escape from having to be that character that the public wants them to be. I don't direct them so much as provide extra space to play in. Studios get very nervous about this. They want to hand out the same Big Mac each time, but I want to turn the Big Mac inside out. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I like taking [movie stars] and letting them be something very different, ... Actors love it because it's an escape from having to be that character that the public wants them to be. I don't direct them so much as provide extra space to play in. Studios get very nervous about this. They want to hand out the same Big Mac each time, but I want to turn the Big Mac inside out.

We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view.

I just e-mailed him the other day saying I'm lying to the world that he's still in it, ... We did a deal when 'Quixote' collapsed and we both said we were going to go off and do commercial films so that we could get 'Quixote' back on the road. Well, he did his part of the deal and I'm hoping that 'Grimm' may be my part. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I just e-mailed him the other day saying I'm lying to the world that he's still in it, ... We did a deal when 'Quixote' collapsed and we both said we were going to go off and do commercial films so that we could get 'Quixote' back on the road. Well, he did his part of the deal and I'm hoping that 'Grimm' may be my part.

The Brothers Grimm - Terry Gilliam Quotes

The Brothers Grimm

It often happens with films. You get to the end of production and you find that the film I was making is not necessarily the film that the financiers thought they were getting. What I find normally happens in those situations is that they find a compromise which isn't particularly good for the film, or you get into a head-to-head ego battle which, again, might not be good for the film. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

It often happens with films. You get to the end of production and you find that the film I was making is not necessarily the film that the financiers thought they were getting. What I find normally happens in those situations is that they find a compromise which isn't particularly good for the film, or you get into a head-to-head ego battle which, again, might not be good for the film.

We cut out the most expensive scene in the film! - Terry Gilliam Quotes

We cut out the most expensive scene in the film!

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

British Director

Only to my wife, ... Everyone else thinks I'm jolly good fun to work with. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Only to my wife, ... Everyone else thinks I'm jolly good fun to work with.

At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did.

I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian.

I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again,

[Of the six-month hiatus from] The Brothers Grimm, ... It was a gamble. But it was a great relief to go off to do something else. You get so nonobjective at the end there. When I came back to London, they asked me to finish 'Grimm' the way I wanted to, and in the interim, I'd actually seen a few things we could do to improve it. The film benefited from that gap. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

[Of the six-month hiatus from] The Brothers Grimm, ... It was a gamble. But it was a great relief to go off to do something else. You get so nonobjective at the end there. When I came back to London, they asked me to finish 'Grimm' the way I wanted to, and in the interim, I'd actually seen a few things we could do to improve it. The film benefited from that gap.

I read the reviews, my career is over. I'm a broken man. Crushed. Smashed. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I read the reviews, my career is over. I'm a broken man. Crushed. Smashed.

Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you're getting into it, you think, 'Ooh, there's another idea,' and you're shooting some more and, 'Oh, here's another thing. Let's do that.' I'm always changing and adding. That's just the way my mind works. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you're getting into it, you think, 'Ooh, there's another idea,' and you're shooting some more and, 'Oh, here's another thing. Let's do that.' I'm always changing and adding. That's just the way my mind works.

I think a once in a lifetime experience is what we call these things, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I think a once in a lifetime experience is what we call these things,

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

British Director

I know when I watch trailers, that I'm seeing the same ones I've seen the last 15 years, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

I know when I watch trailers, that I'm seeing the same ones I've seen the last 15 years,

Frankly, it's better than we could do at the time. The text? Obviously inferior! The actors? Better than we were, - Terry Gilliam Quotes

Frankly, it's better than we could do at the time. The text? Obviously inferior! The actors? Better than we were,

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