Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1940
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
strong people long
I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.
sorry mean wife
Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.
kids thinking imagination
I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.
stars war hate
Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.
war losing-control police
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
anarchy directors film
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
good-movie want problem
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
trying guarantees television
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
country lakes swamps
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
mediocrity enough saved
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
want sides vans
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
brother apologizing desperate
The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
hate laughing losing
I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.
dirty years film
Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.