Terry Gilliam Quotes

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Imagination comes of not having things.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

When you have no money, you need invention.

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Necessity, the mother of invention