166 Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you're getting into it, you think, 'Ooh, there's another idea,' and you're shooting some more and, 'Oh, here's another thing. Let's do that.' I'm always changing and adding. That's just the way my mind works.

We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film.

We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view.

We cut out the most expensive scene in the film!

Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.

At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did.

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

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.

There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation.