Terry Gilliam Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Two

• I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

  Terry Gilliam

  Strong, Long, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Dirty, Years, Film

  "Salman Rushdie (writer) Talks With Terry Gilliam (filmmaker)". Interview with Salman Rushdie, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

• I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

  Terry Gilliam

  Directors, Anarchy, Film

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

• 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

  Stars, Hate, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Running, Self, Want

  Source: collider.com

• I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, People, Watches

  "Terry Gilliam Talks The 'Simplistic' Films Of Steven Spielberg, Dumbing Down Of Audiences, ‘Don Quixote’ Start Date & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 07, 2014.

• What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Brain, Important

• [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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

• To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them. They walk home 20 blocks the wrong way. Or they lock themselves in their office. Or they find themselves weeping when in the shower after the film. And those intrigue me, because I know I've touched something inside them.

  Terry Gilliam

  Block, Home, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  School, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.cnn.com

• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Stupidity, Skins

  Source: www.cnn.com

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