Terry Gilliam Quotes

November 22, 1940

Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (pronounced /ˈɡɪliəm/) (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work … Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

Interview at the NY Museum of the Moving Image in October 2006.

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It's an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well.

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— About Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article Terry Gilliam's Feel-Good Endings (14 August 2005)

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[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. ... The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

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— Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)

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

Terry Gilliam
— IMDB profile

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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg — I don't usually admit this publicly — because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it — to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

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— IMDB profile

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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.

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— IMDB profile

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