Terry Gilliam Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  School, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

  Terry Gilliam

  Fun, Unique, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Giving, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Thinking, Miracle

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

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• 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.

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  Dirty, Years, Film

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

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• 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.

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  Thinking, World, Accepted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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  World, Modern, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Letting Go, Simple, Hair

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Technology, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Hate, Laughing, Losing

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• 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

  World, Busy, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Men, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

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  Trying, Ambitious, Manage

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Brother, Apologizing, Desperate

  YouTube Channel "Yakushima"/"Terry Gilliam in NY Museum of the Moving Image 10/2006", www.youtube.com. November 05, 2006.

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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

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  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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• I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

  Terry Gilliam

  Political, Cartoon, Bombs

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• I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

  Terry Gilliam

  Silly, Mobster, Violent

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

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• It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

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  Worry, Losing, Problem

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

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• My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.

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  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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• The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Want, Spending Time

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

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