166 Quotes by Terry Gilliam

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

[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.

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.

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.

The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

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.