166 Quotes by Terry Gilliam

I don’t think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn’t want to talk about it. This is the world we’re living in, people don’t want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

I can feel my dreams but I can’t remember them.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people – they no longer rule the world!

I’m a cartoonist, it’s what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it’s based on reality. That’s what I try to do.

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.

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.

When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he’s teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You’ve got your hands full this time.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.