Quote

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Terry Gilliam

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Gilliam
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comedian
Comics Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Terrence Vance Gilliam
Never
Depressed
Life
Define
World
Depression
Basis
Bases
Otherwise
Modern
Seems
Clinical

More quotes by Terry Gilliam

Image
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
Terry Gilliam
Image
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
Terry Gilliam
Image
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
Terry Gilliam
Image
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
Terry Gilliam
Image
I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
Terry Gilliam
Image
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
Terry Gilliam
Image
All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.
Terry Gilliam
Image
In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
Terry Gilliam
Image
I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
Terry Gilliam
Image
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
Terry Gilliam
Image
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
Terry Gilliam
Image
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
Terry Gilliam
Image
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.
Terry Gilliam
Image
I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
Terry Gilliam
Image
The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.
Terry Gilliam
Image
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
Terry Gilliam
Image
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.
Terry Gilliam
Image
Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
Terry Gilliam
Image
I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.
Terry Gilliam
Image
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
Terry Gilliam