Well, 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 GilliamJohn 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 GilliamI 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 GilliamI'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
Terry GilliamI 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.
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