166 Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Once the voices are in your head, it’s either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

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

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.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations – to limit what we want to see.

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.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don’t see that many great movies, because I think there’s only a limited amount of talent out there.

I think that’s the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they’re sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

You get trapped by stories. Though I’ve got this reputation for being out of control, it’s not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don’t have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what’s the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.