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
successful thinking play
I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.
thinking different downsizing
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
heart reality trying
I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.
expectations marketing want
The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.
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.
song teaching good-luck
When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.
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.