Terry Gilliam Quotes

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

The result was I went nowhere.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

You cannot kickstart a dead horse

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Many a false step is made standing still.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Postponement: The father of failure.