Terry Gilliam Quotes

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly.

Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

We took care of Kennedy

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

A general must be a charlatan.

I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.

"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused.

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?