Terry Gilliam Quotes

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. - Terry Gilliam

Yeah, off in the middle distance somewhere. - Terry Gilliam

With Life of Brian we were vilified. Yet Christianity is alive and well. If your religion is so vulnerable that a little bit of disrespect is going to bring it down, it's not worth believing in frankly. - 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. - Terry Gilliam

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. - Terry Gilliam

We might just get the script out of the legal mess it's in. - Terry Gilliam

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. - Terry Gilliam

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. - Terry Gilliam

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. - Terry Gilliam

We cut out the most expensive scene in the film! - Terry Gilliam

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