Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

[Steven Spielberg’s films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don’t think they’re very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they’re comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don’t have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

Clever

Nice

Stupid

A lot of people seem to get carried away that something that’s made out of paper mâché is going to be better than not. And I always thought the original King Kong, that terrible little puppet with its hair going in all directions, was far more magical than Peter Jackson’s incredibly beautifully rendered King Kong. So there’s something to be said for a more primitive version of things. I think it’s because it makes the audience work a little bit more, because you’ve got to invest it with life and reality, so I like doing that.

People

Reality

Thinking

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

Different

Downsizing

Thinking

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

Dislike

Lying

Talking

Every few years when it’s been another five years that have passed and I haven’t made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

Dirty

Film

Years

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.

Jobs

Technology

Tools

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

Hyperbole

I do think so much of what I do is reactive to the way the world sees itself, or the way the world is being portrayed. I wanted to offer an alternative to that. Whether it is accepted or not is beside the point, but it’s an alternative.

Accepted

Thinking

World

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.

Has Beens

Knows

Thinking

I find Hollywood gives these pat stories, and they’re reassuring stories, and I don’t really want to give people that. Hollywood does all that work. I’m offering, sometimes, an alternative to that. The answers aren’t black-and-white. There may not even be answers in certain instances. The ground is not necessarily solid, either. So you’ve got to keep awake the whole time, even after the movie is over.

Giving

People

Sometimes

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Coming Out

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Downsizing

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Frustrated

Giving

Good Movie

Guarantees

Hair

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Honest

Hyperbole

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Important

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Knows

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Letting Go

Limits

Losing Control

Lying

Magic Realism

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Medicine

Men

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Patronizing

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Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

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

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

Every few years when it’s been another five years that have passed and I haven’t made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

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.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

I do think so much of what I do is reactive to the way the world sees itself, or the way the world is being portrayed. I wanted to offer an alternative to that. Whether it is accepted or not is beside the point, but it’s an alternative.

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.

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