166 Quotes by Terry Gilliam

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They’re all dealing with similar things. It’s about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that’s how you get through it.

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

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.

I’m more prone to anarchy than I am to control – even though I’m a film director.

I hate losing laughs; they’re rare things.

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.

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.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it’s not going to be people, I’ll patronize a festival.

I’m overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren’t impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you’re magic.