Terry Gilliam Quotes

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker."

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.