Terry Gilliam has given up on ever getting an Oscar, and really, that's probably a good thing. The visionary, probably crazy director behind masterpieces like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys and, uh, less-than-masterpieces The Brothers Grimm and (I'll go ahead and say it) The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has never made movies for anything other than his boundless imagination, while the Academy wants movies made specifically to their tastes and their tastes alone. And Gilliam isn't having any of that!
"You would think that there's intelligent life in Hollywood. But then you discover that there's just fear," he said in The Daily Telegraphy. "People are frightened of making decisions or even having - I hate to use the word 'vision', but they lack all of that. Hollywood is run by Goldman Sachs and not by entrepreneurs or studio people."
He's completely right, of course, and just saying what everyone is too afraid to admit. Same with this statement: "I won’t be getting an Academy Award – I’ll predict that – ever. And somehow, my life will be no less for that!" Really, if Terry Gilliam ever started trying to win an Oscar, we'd all be worse off for it.
