Terry Gilliam Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.”

“It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.”

“People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.”

“Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.”

“They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.”

“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.”

“There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.”

“I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.”

“I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.”