Terry Gilliam Quotes
22 quotations by Terry Gilliam
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. |
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. |
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. |
There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation. |
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. |
The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair. |
The character Heath plays is the dreamer, the scholar, the one who's dragged along reluctantly and who then finds this truly enchanted world. |
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good. |
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. |
It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. |
It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me. |
It was like a nightmare working with these guys. Here's how I get through this film: the Weinsteins don't exist. I didn't speak to them. |
In New York, we used to go outside film studios and get reels of blank film, and we used to draw on them, do flipper books, that sort of thing. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
I was always keen to shock people and shake them up; Eric was a little bit more traditionally motivated in really being just funny all the time. |
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. |
Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid. |
At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! |
And Now For Something Completely Different was supposed to be our entree into America. It failed in America but was a big success in England. |
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. |