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
along chris drive driving guy harry hours leaving perfect remember versions
I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian.
dream remember feels
I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
fight
Usually I have my big fight at the end of a film,
music seem time videos
The only time you get to see something interesting occasionally is music videos but even they've become boring, they seem more and more the same.
bit eric funny keen motivated people shake shock
I was always keen to shock people and shake them up; Eric was a little bit more traditionally motivated in really being just funny all the time.
beginning wonder
I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again,
call experience lifetime
I think a once in a lifetime experience is what we call these things,
areas length played
At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!
dealing fits harvey referring
I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.
fact looks people together
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.
It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.
holy line
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.
happened hardly kids time watching
It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.
maybe
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.