Quotes by Terry Gilliam

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

I don't do drugs. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife... sorry, I mean, life... no, actually, it was my wife.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.

In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America - it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

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

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

I want this on my tombstone:
Here lies Terry Gilliam
RIP
He giggled in awe.