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
thinking order people
I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.
thinking talent amount
Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.
men thinking people
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
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.
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.
thinking just-one one-thing
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
country thinking miracle
There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.
thinking people magic
I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.
thinking magic-realism age
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.
crazy thinking two
I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.
formed grew reading tv
We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view.
cut expensive scene
We cut out the most expensive scene in the film!
bitter business complete conspires might side thick toughness tried twisted
Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.