I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
Terry GilliamThe 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 GilliamI was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.
Terry GilliamI was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Terry GilliamWell, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.
Terry Gilliam